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Siller vs Silvio

American parents have registered 3,000 Silvios since 1880, against 50 Sillers. Silvio is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siller against Silvio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siller Silvio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Silvio for 118 years and Siller for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Siller Silvio
Total US births 503,000
Most in one year 786
Babies in 2025 under 545
Estimated living today 01,400
Median age today 9931
Peak year 18921922
Best rank 1,171st girls702nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,798th
First recorded 18921905
Girls / boys 50 / 00 / 3,000

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sillers alive today are over 99; half the Silvios are over 31. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Siller and Silvio.