Sylvi

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sylvi: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 28 years, its highest recorded position is #94, and it stood at #5,927 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#94highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sylvi's record

Absent from every published list for 28 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#5785
2019	#4686
2020	#5493
2021	#5581
2024	#4843
2025	#5927

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 40 of the 43 years from 1945 to 1987.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #140 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1987
Highest recorded position: #94 among girls in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–1987).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Sylvi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 40 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,070 births with the name.

Sylvi across 2 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.

Sylvi'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	#140 (1945)	#94 (1946)	#679 (1987)	40 of 43	1,070 (1945–1987)	66 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2016)	#4686 (2019)	#5927 (2025)	6 of 10	20 (2016–2025)	4 (2019)

Sylvi 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 Sylvi in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	236	5 of 10	47
1950s	411	10 of 10	41
1960s	252	10 of 10	25
1970s	133	10 of 10	13
1980s	38	5 of 10	8

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 47 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1945 and 1946, when recorded births rose by 27, from 39 to 66.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sylvi 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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #94 in Norway in 1946.

Sylvi'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#679	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#430	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#382	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#432	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#431	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#448	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#294	15	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#327	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#414	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#362	11	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#301	14	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#293	15	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#238	20	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#239	19	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#222	20	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#190	25	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#201	23	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#170	27	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#169	25	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#206	20	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#180	24	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#170	23	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#132	34	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#141	31	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#115	43	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#164	26	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#122	37	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#105	51	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#120	42	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#135	36	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#123	43	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#99	53	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#120	41	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#127	39	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#138	36	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#113	49	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#119	46	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#94	66	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#140	39	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #94, first reached in 1946.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 66 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 28 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 71 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.

Sylvan · #2263, 15y
Sylvester · #148, 48y
Sylvia · #111, 81y
Sylvie · #186, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Doireann · #99, 50y
Iren · #104, 42y
Mali · #82, 49y
Elvira · #81, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Eirin · #94, 80y
Mai · #94, 81y
Bjarte · #93, 60y
Margit · #95, 81y

Sylvi was ranked #94 in Norway · Girls in 1946. 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.

Oddny#90
Ellinor#91
Evy#92
Målfrid#93
Astri#95
Sigrun#96
Sølvi#97
Hilde#98

Sylvi 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sylvi without appearing here.

Sylvi moved ahead of

Ella
In 1981 they stood at #603 and #528 in Norway · Girls; by 1982 that had become #382 and #629.

Moved ahead of Sylvi

Emilie
In 1986 they stood at #430 and #438 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #679 and #136.
Isabelle
In 1986 they stood at #430 and #642 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #679 and #270.
Nicole
In 1986 they stood at #430 and #491 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #679 and #281.
Amanda
In 1986 they stood at #430 and #564 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #679 and #292.

Moved the opposite way to Sylvi

Anita
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 while Anita went from #162 to #59.
Anna
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 while Anna went from #38 to #19.
Cecilie
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 while Cecilie went from #359 to #23.
Christine
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 while Christine went from #253 to #24.

Moved the same way as Sylvi

Ada
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 and Ada from #229 to #444.
Alma
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 and Alma from #293 to #514.
Anne
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 and Anne from #1 to #8.
Annie
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Sylvi went from #140 to #679 and Annie from #180 to #419.

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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #94 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sylvi

Sylvi at a glance

What stands out in Sylvi's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sylvi across 2 official records

Sylvi by decade in Norway · Girls

Sylvi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Sylvi at a glance

What stands out in Sylvi's record

Sylvi across 2 official records

Sylvi by decade in Norway · Girls

Sylvi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Sylvi

Sylvi and the names beside it

Sylvi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sylvi

Moved the opposite way to Sylvi

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