Sylvia

Sylvia is the 6,228th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,266 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 56,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,266
Rank: 6,228th
How common: 1 in 56,800
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sylvia described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Hispanic or Latino 6.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sylvia

Tim Sylvia (born 1976)American mixed martial artist

People named Sylvia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sylvia

Sylvester

Also a first name

Sylvia has been given to 245,978 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1937. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.