How Many People Are Named Silvester?
people named Silvester are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 531,547 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,306 babies named Silvester in Social Security records from 1884 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
32 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a Roman name meaning "of the forest" from Latin silva "wood, forest". This was the name of three popes, including Saint Silvester I who supposedly baptized the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine the Great. As an English name, Silvester (or Sylvester) has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it became less common after the Protestant Reformation.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Silvester in English. Counting Silvester and these spellings together, about 18,180 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Silvester in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Silvester alive today is about 52 years old, and 44% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 36 and 67 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Silvester first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1960, to 32 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Silvester has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #836, in 1884.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #836 (1884) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,650 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Silvester alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Silvester were born in Texas than in any other state: about 47 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Silvester was given about 11.7 times as often in Texas.
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