Silvana
Feminine · “of the woods”
Silvana is the Italian and Spanish feminine of Silvano, and behind it is the Latin word for a wood. The Roman god of the forest carried the name before any person did.
How old is the name Silvana?
Silvana first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Silvana alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 2,300 people named Silvana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Silvana most popular?
Silvana peaked in 1965, reaching #1950 nationally. Today it ranks #3296, 1,346 places below that high. See the whole 1965 chart.
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Where it comes from
From silva to Silvana
The story of Silvana
Silvanus was worshipped at the edges of Roman farms, where the cultivated land met the trees, and his name became a personal one and then a Christian one. Italian made Silvano and Silvana, Spanish the same, and Portuguese Silvana too. The name was widely used in Italy through the twentieth century and reached American records with Italian and Latin American families.
Meaning
of the woods
From Latin silva, a wood or forest; Silvanus was the Roman god of woodland and field boundaries, and the name passed into ordinary use through several early saints.
How the name formed
- silva
- Silvanus
- Silvana
Related forms: Silvana · Silvana · Sylvia · Sylvaine
Pronouncing Silvana
seel-VAH-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Italian and Spanish.
Nicknames for Silvana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 200764 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1950reached in 1965
- Change vs 2023
- −14.5%47 in 2025, from 55
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Silvana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Silvana in Italian — same name
- Silvana in Spanish — same name
- Sylvia in English — related form
- Sylvaine in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Silvanas among us
people named Silvana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was named Silvana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Silvana
- #3296
- Silvana on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Silvana went to 47 girls in 2025, but Sylvana is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,396 places above the chart.
- Silvana47
- Sylvana13
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,197 for Silvana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gerline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Silvana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gerline climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gerline's path sketches the road Silvana is walking now.
Silvana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Silvana is headed
Silvana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Silvana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Silvana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Latin meaning tied to a real and vivid image.
- Sylvia stands beside it as a very familiar English cousin.
- Every letter is said, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Silvana and Sylvana are both used and the spelling will be asked for.
- Americans will flatten the first vowel from seel to sil.
- It is close to Sylvia and Savannah in an English ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Silvanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Silvana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Silvana?
- Silvana is the most-used spelling in US records — 47 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Sylvana.
- How popular is the name Silvana in 2025?
- Silvana ranks #3296 among US girl names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Silvana?
- About 1 in every 34,197 US girls born in 2025 was named Silvana — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Silvana with classmates?
- Silvana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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