Meaning and history
Silvia is the feminine form of Silvius. Rhea Silvia was mother of Rome's founders Romulus and Remus, while a 6th-century Saint Silvia was mother of Pope Gregory the Great. Common in Italy since the Middle Ages, it entered English through Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594), though Sylvia is now the usual English spelling.
20062006: 244 births, rank #1,050
2007: 241 births, rank #1,084
2008: 205 births, rank #1,231
2009: 238 births, rank #1,073
2010: 186 births, rank #1,278
20112011: 188 births, rank #1,266
2012: 184 births, rank #1,291
2013: 187 births, rank #1,267
2014: 199 births, rank #1,228
2015: 170 births, rank #1,388
20162016: 171 births, rank #1,371
2017: 144 births, rank #1,529
2018: 160 births, rank #1,399
2019: 182 births, rank #1,274
2020: 157 births, rank #1,389
20212021: 164 births, rank #1,347
2022: 163 births, rank #1,401
2023: 163 births, rank #1,377
2024: 207 births, rank #1,160
20252025: 182 births, rank #1,235
Silvia moved from #973 to #987 for girls between 2003 and 2005. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 374 births.