Sylvie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sylvie: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #186, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#186highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1543
1998	#1392
1999	#1160
2000	#1250
2001	#962
2002	#1032
2003	#1026
2004	#758
2005	#756
2006	#558
2007	#666
2008	#632
2009	#508
2010	#485
2011	#562
2012	#487
2013	#432
2014	#460
2015	#377
2016	#458
2017	#386
2018	#419
2019	#377
2020	#419
2021	#344
2022	#289
2023	#259
2024	#211
2025	#186

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2025: #186 among girls in England and Wales, #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #186 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #186 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Sylvie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,517 births with the name.

Sylvie 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.

Sylvie'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#186 (2025)	#186 (2025)	30 of 30	2,517 (1996–2025)	270 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2008)	#364 (2023)	#608 (2025)	10 of 18	49 (2008–2025)	10 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#440 (2013)	#253 (2024)	#253 (2024)	5 of 12	21 (2013–2024)	6 (2024)

Sylvie by decade in England and Wales · 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 Sylvie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	51	4 of 10	13
2000s	409	10 of 10	41
2010s	990	10 of 10	99
2020sbusiest	1,067	6 of 10	178

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 178 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 55, from 174 to 229.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sylvie 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #186 in England and Wales in 2025.

Sylvie'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	#186	270	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#211	229	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#259	174	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#289	156	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#344	137	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#419	101	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#377	116	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#419	104	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#386	117	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#458	95	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#377	120	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#460	95	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#432	98	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#487	90	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#562	72	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#485	83	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#508	79	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#632	59	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#666	52	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#558	63	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#756	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#758	37	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1032	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

Where Sylvie is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Sylvie, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#186 in 2025
Republic of Ireland	2008–2025	10	#364 in 2023
Northern Ireland	2013–2024	5	#253 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#384 in 2024

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #186, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 270 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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.

Sylvi · #94, 46y
Sylvia · #111, 81y
Sylwester · #252, 36y
Sylwia · #150, 37y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Coen · #186, 25y
Lily-Mae · #186, 30y
Saul · #186, 31y
Esmee · #185, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Coen · #186, 25y
Courteney · #186, 15y
Deaglan · #186, 20y
Lily-Mae · #186, 30y

Sylvie was ranked #186 in England and Wales · Girls in 2025. 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.

Callie#186
Clementine#186
Riley#186
Yusra#186
Aubrey#191
Aoife#192
Arya#193
Tilly#193

Sylvie 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 Sylvie without appearing here.

Sylvie moved ahead of

Janice
In 1996 they stood at #1646 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1543 and #2738.
Jesse
In 2003 they stood at #1026 and #965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #758 and #1952.
Debra
In 1998 they stood at #1392 and #1392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1160 and #2189.
Suzanne
In 2005 they stood at #756 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #558 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Sylvie

Ivy
In 2012 they stood at #750 and #862 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #304.
Mabel
In 2012 they stood at #750 and #862 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #587.
Mila
In 2010 they stood at #485 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #562 and #261.
Harper
In 2011 they stood at #562 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #487 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Sylvie

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 while Abigail went from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 while Aimee went from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 while Aisling went from #440 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 while Alex went from #161 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Sylvie

Ada
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 and Alma from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 and Alyssa from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Sylvie went from #1646 to #186 and Amalie from #2096 to #894.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #186 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sylvie

Sylvie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sylvie across 3 official records

Sylvie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sylvie appears in

Popularity data

Where Sylvie is officially recorded

What the record shows

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Sylvie at a glance

Sylvie across 3 official records

Sylvie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sylvie appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sylvie

Sylvie and the names beside it

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