Sylvan

Other ways to spell Sylvan

2 other spellings sound the same in the SSA's records.

Sounds like
/sˈɪlvən/

How the espeak speech engine reads Sylvan. Hear it said

Counted as one name
#1,480

For boys in 2025, if every name’s spellings were counted together this way. Sylvan, the most-given spelling, is #1,668 on its own.

Spellings given to boys in 2025: 109 births in all

  1. #1,668Sylvan99
  2. #7,679Silvan10

Also given in other years or to girls: Silven.

Close, but counted apart

These sound a little different to the speech engine, so each is counted on its own.

How spellings are grouped: every name in the SSA’s records was read aloud by espeak, an open-source speech engine, and spellings with the same reading (ignoring stress and vowel length) are counted together. It reads the letters, not what parents meant, so some calls will be off.