Silvana

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sylvana in FR France, NL Netherlands and Silvallana in PH Philippines.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Silvana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name300K records spelled Silvana16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Sìlvana, Śiĺvãñä, Sílváná, S͏i͏l͏v͏a͏n͏a͏

• Croatian given name29K records spelled Silvana32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, North Macedonia, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Силвана, Сильвана, Sylvana, Sivana, Сілвана

• Italian given name19K records spelled Silvana3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Canada

  Also written Sìlvana, Sîlvänä

• Albanian given name11K records spelled Silvana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Kosovo

  Also written Siľvãńã

• a separate given name4.1K records spelled Silvana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Bolivia

  Also written Silvâna

• Hungarian given name2.4K records spelled Silvana4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Italy, United States

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Silvänä

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Silvana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A Filipino dessert, a frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Silvana är den feminina motsvarigheten till Silvano, den italienska formen av Silvanus (→ Silas). En känd namnbärare är den svenska hiphop-artisten Silvana Imam (f. 1986).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Variante féminine de Sylvain, du latin silva « forêt ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Forme féminine de Silvan/Sylvain.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, ) Sylvana: weibl. Vom., weibli­ che Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 94 years between 1922–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Silvana Pampaninib. 1925ITItalian actress and director (1925-2016)
• Silvana Manganob. 1930ITItalian actress (1930–1989)
• Silvana Armenulićb. 1939BABosnia and Herzegovina singer (1939–1976)
• Lara Saint Paulb. 1945ERnot in their usual nameItalian Eritrean singer, entertainer, impresario and record producer (1945–2018)
• Silvana Gallardob. 1953USAmerican actress (1953–2012)
• Silvana Fallisib. 1964ITItalian actress
• Silvana López Moreirab. 1974PYformer First Lady of Paraguay (* 1974)
• Silvana Tirinzonib. 1979CHSwiss curler
• Silvana Imamb. 1986SELithuanian-born Swedish rapper
• Silvana Stancob. 1993ITItalian sport shooter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 897 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Silvana?

We estimate roughly 236 thousand people bear Silvana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Silvana have the most bearers?

Silvana is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled silvana.

How common is Silvana compared with other names?

In Argentina, Silvana is the 199th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Silvana a male or female name?

Silvana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Silvana mean?

Recorded meaning: Latin/Italian form of Silvana; ‘forest, woods’