Sylvester

Other ways to spell Sylvester

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

Sounds like
/sˈɪlvɛstɚ/

How the espeak speech engine reads Sylvester. Hear it said

Counted as one name
#1,735

For boys in 2025, if every name’s spellings were counted together this way. Sylvester, the most-given spelling, is #2,207 on its own.

Spellings given to boys in 2025: 84 births in all

  1. #2,207Sylvester64
  2. #4,857Silvestre20

Also given in other years or to girls: Silvester, Sylvestre.

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.