Silvia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Silvia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Silvia: Recorded since 1953, it reached #169 in 1976, and it stood at #1,672 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
72years from first to last
#169highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#3824
1998	#2165
1999	#2189
2000	#2416
2001	#2023
2002	#2540
2003	#2727
2004	#1952
2005	#3970
2006	#1983
2007	#1854
2008	#1718
2009	#1837
2010	#2235
2011	#1903
2012	#1893
2013	#1537
2014	#1562
2015	#1783
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2901
2019	#1854
2020	#1449
2021	#1866
2022	#2178
2023	#1640
2024	#1672

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 50 of the 70 years from 1953 to 2022.

In 2022: #502 among girls in Norway, #2178 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1953–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1953
First recorded at #436 among girls in Norway in 1953 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1953–2022
Highest recorded position: #169 among girls in Norway, in 1976 (recorded 1953–2022).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Silvia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 50 years beginning in 1953, and has registered 493 births with the name.

Silvia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Silvia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#436 (1953)	#169 (1976)	#502 (2022)	50 of 70	493 (1953–2022)	32 (1976)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#471 (1972)	#471 (1972)	#750 (2016)	5 of 45	19 (1972–2016)	5 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#1449 (2020)	#1672 (2024)	29 of 29	340 (1996–2024)	21 (2020)

Silvia by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Silvia in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	3 of 10	5
1960s	56	8 of 10	7
1970sbusiest	159	10 of 10	16
1980s	145	10 of 10	15
1990s	63	8 of 10	8
2000s	21	4 of 10	5
2010s	27	5 of 10	5
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1975 and 1976, when recorded births rose by 25, from 7 to 32.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Silvia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1953 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #169 in Norway in 1976.

Silvia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1672	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1640	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#502	4	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#495	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#477	6	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#569	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#455	8	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#557	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#578	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#574	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#579	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#631	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#425	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#512	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#600	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#433	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#366	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#445	9	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#497	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#407	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#326	15	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#342	14	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#459	9	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#411	11	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#448	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#309	14	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#288	16	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#229	22	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#216	24	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#230	22	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#197	27	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#179	31	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#169	32	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#484	7	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#329	13	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#511	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#492	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#422	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#501	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#406	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#312	11	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#358	9	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#521	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#375	8	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#530	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#427	6	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#452	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#433	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#436	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1953 and 2024, ranked in 66 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #169, first reached in 1976.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in Norway in 1976.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1972, and 43 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Silvana · #2438, 20y
Silver · #1456, 17y
Silvie · #2711, 17y
Sima · #1473, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Roland · #169, 62y
Oonagh · #171, 61y
Julianne · #172, 62y
Hilda · #160, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Renata · #169, 59y
Igor · #170, 65y
Miroslaw · #168, 36y
Elisa · #167, 58y

Silvia was ranked #169 in Norway · Girls in 1976. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Silvia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Silvia without appearing here.

Silvia moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1893 and #5876.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2901 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2901 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Finn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3970 and #3382 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2235 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Silvia

Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #3824 and #1666.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #1107.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1866 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2178 and #1452.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1866 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Silvia

Malin Compare
Between 1966 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #358 to #502 while Malin went from #530 to #152.
Silje Compare
Between 1966 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #358 to #502 while Silje went from #542 to #201.
Amelia Compare
Between 1967 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #312 to #502 while Amelia went from #487 to #37.
Martine Compare
Between 1967 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #312 to #502 while Martine went from #569 to #99.

Moved the same way as Silvia

Gunn Compare
Between 1953 and 1998 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #436 to #631 and Gunn from #21 to #365.
Trude Compare
Between 1953 and 1998 in Norway · Girls, Silvia went from #436 to #631 and Trude from #150 to #223.
Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Silvia went from #3824 to #1672 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Silvia went from #3824 to #1672 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1953 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #169 in Norway in 1976. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Silvia

Silvia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Silvia across 3 official records

Silvia by decade in Norway · Girls

Silvia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Silvia and the names beside it

Silvia moved ahead of

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Silvia at a glance

Silvia across 3 official records

Silvia by decade in Norway · Girls

Silvia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Silvia

Silvia and the names beside it

Silvia moved ahead of

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