Sylvanus

Where Sylvanus comes from

The dictionaries list Sylvanus as a given name — a male given name from Latin, variant of Silvanus — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Sylvanus Morley born
    American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S.
  3. 1894
    Peak, #787
    8 babies named Sylvanus — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1902
    Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio born
    President of Togo
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, variant of Silvanus.
Namesakes
  • Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio · President of Togo, 1902–1963
  • Sylvanus Morley · American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S., 1883–1948
  • Sylvanus Nimely · Liberian footballer, born 1998
  • Sylvanus Thayer · United States colonel, 1785–1872
  • Sylvanus Stall · American writer, 1847–1915

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.