Sylvie
#282 for girls in 2025, 1,096 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,096 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,444since 1909
Sylvie over time
Rank among girls' names. Sylvie has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #282 | 1,096 |
| 2024 | #356 | 873 |
| 2023 | #425 | 728 |
| 2022 | #433 | 724 |
| 2021 | #585 | 517 |
| 2020 | #772 | 352 |
| 2019 | #869 | 308 |
| 2018 | #899 | 299 |
| 2017 | #988 | 263 |
| 2016 | #958 | 283 |
| 2015 | #1,175 | 214 |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 |
| 2013 | #1,198 | 200 |
| 2012 | #1,374 | 170 |
| 2011 | #1,427 | 159 |
| 2010 | #1,521 | 147 |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 |
| 2008 | #1,740 | 127 |
| 2007 | #1,704 | 128 |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 |
| 2001 | #2,438 | 64 |
| 2000 | #2,480 | 61 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 |
| 1969 | #2,515 | 27 |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 |
| 1965 | #1,768 | 41 |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 |
| 1962 | #2,605 | 22 |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
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| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sylvie! It came in at #2,208, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1909–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sylvie is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#221 · 1 in 687
- Minnesota#392 · 1 in 1,709
- Massachusetts#565 · 1 in 2,800
- Missouri#602 · 1 in 2,886
- Utah#629 · 1 in 2,842
Best ever in a state: #46 in South Dakota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #221 | 5 | 1 in 687 |
| Minnesota | #392 | 14 | 1 in 1,709 |
| Massachusetts | #565 | 9 | 1 in 2,800 |
| Missouri | #602 | 9 | 1 in 2,886 |
| Utah | #629 | 6 | 1 in 2,842 |
| Washington | #647 | 10 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Oregon | #663 | 5 | 1 in 2,899 |
| Louisiana | #721 | 6 | 1 in 3,314 |
| New York | #737 | 22 | 1 in 4,000 |
| Wisconsin | #745 | 6 | 1 in 3,763 |
| Michigan | #781 | 10 | 1 in 4,127 |
| Pennsylvania | #823 | 11 | 1 in 4,649 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| North Carolina | #1,003 | 8 | 1 in 5,673 |
| Georgia | #1,048 | 8 | 1 in 5,891 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Florida | #1,053 | 13 | 1 in 6,612 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| California | #1,138 | 26 | 1 in 7,529 |
| Texas | #1,990 | 10 | 1 in 15,987 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sylvie
- 74 spots since 2024 (#356 → #282)
- 490 spots since 2020 (#772 → #282)
- 893 spots since 2015 (#1,175 → #282)
- Biggest jump: 217 spots in 2016 (#1,175 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 30 spots in 2017 (#958 → #988)
- Debuted 1909
- Peaked 2025 at #282 (1,096 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,466 girls born in 2025 were named Sylvie (0.07%)
- 50.8% of all girls named Sylvie (4,290) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,208 (1909) | #2,208 |
| 1910s | 22 | #3,795 (1915) | #4,276 |
| 1920s | 11 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,569 |
| 1930s | 17 | #3,449 (1934) | #4,026 |
| 1940s | 17 | #4,345 (1947) | #4,737 |
| 1950s | 97 | #2,506 (1958) | #3,824 |
| 1960s | 242 | #1,768 (1965) | #2,620 |
| 1970s | 145 | #3,015 (1973) | #4,583 |
| 1980s | 159 | #4,148 (1980) | #4,916 |
| 1990s | 285 | #2,874 (1997) | #4,053 |
| 2000s | 883 | #1,660 (2009) | #2,187 |
| 2010s | 2,271 | #869 (2019) | #1,152 |
| 2020s | 4,290 | #282 (2025) | #476 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sylvie in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,564 of them was named Sylvie, which outranked 94.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #985Carlee264
- #985Marlowe264
- #985Yara264
- #988Sylvie263
- #988Etta263
- #990Alisa262
- #990Bryleigh262
- #990Riya262
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.