Silva
About 911 American babies have been named Silva since 1892, most of them around 1969. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 610 Silvas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Silva boys named Silva
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 911
- Estimated living today
- 610
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1969
- Best rank
- 3,102nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1892
- Girls / boys
- 901 / 10
How old the living Silvas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 911 babies given the name since 1892, about 610 are alive — 67 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Silvas
- Silva Kaputikyan (1919–2006)Armenian poet, writer and political activist
- Silva Batuta (1940–2020)Brazilian footballer
- Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (born 2000)badminton player
- Silva Jose Reinaldo Fernandes (born 1976)Brazilian association football player
People named Silva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Silva is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Silva is most concentrated in California (9.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1969
The most popular girls’ names the year Silva peaked:
Silva elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Silva | 55 | 2,649th |
| France girls | Silva | 50 | 5,436th |
| France boys | Silva | 10 | 4,663rd |
| England and Wales boys | Silva | 3 | 4,991st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Silva among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Silva | 554 | 673 |
| Finland boys | Silva | — | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Silva against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.