Meaning and history
Medieval variant of Silvester; it is now the usual English spelling of the name. A well-known bearer is the American actor Sylvester Stallone (1946–).
20062006: 77 births, rank #1,790
2007: 62 births, rank #2,164
2008: 67 births, rank #2,062
2009: 67 births, rank #2,050
2010: 62 births, rank #2,144
20112011: 60 births, rank #2,173
2012: 57 births, rank #2,270
2013: 76 births, rank #1,866
2014: 75 births, rank #1,920
2015: 73 births, rank #1,983
20162016: 67 births, rank #2,086
2017: 67 births, rank #2,065
2018: 66 births, rank #2,122
2019: 74 births, rank #1,974
2020: 52 births, rank #2,467
20212021: 68 births, rank #2,109
2022: 71 births, rank #2,094
2023: 67 births, rank #2,147
2024: 71 births, rank #2,098
20252025: 64 births, rank #2,207
Sylvester moved from #900 to #966 for boys between 1993 and 1994. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 807 births.