How Many People Are Named Sylvester?
people named Sylvester are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 19,489 people in the US has this name
Based on 43,857 babies named Sylvester in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
819 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Medieval variant of SILVESTER. This is currently the usual English spelling of the name. The actor Sylvester Stallone (1946-) is a famous bearer.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sylvester in English. Counting Sylvester and these spellings together, about 18,180 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Sylvester, 0.8% were girls and 99.2% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sylvester alive today is about 57 years old, and 55% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 43 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sylvester first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1920, to 819 babies. In 2025, 64 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sylvester has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #127, in 1889. In 2025 it ranked #2,224.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,224 |
| Best rank | #127 (1889) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #202 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sylvester alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sylvester were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 1,256 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sylvester was given 4.9 times as often in Mississippi, 2.7 times in Florida and 2.6 times in Alabama.
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