Silvija

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Silvija is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Latvian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 210◐
  • UYUruguay1 in 272
  • MXMexico1 in 277

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈742K ●

across 11 countries

#167 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
489 ●

6.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 210 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

SilviaLatin · Spanish●5.4M records
СилвияCyrillic · Bulgarian●160K records
סילביהHebrew · Hebrew●34K records
ΣυλβιαGreek · Greek●599 records
실비아Hangul · Korean●133 records
ᲡილვიაGeorgian · Georgian●74 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Silvia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 12 more, Sylvia in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PL Poland and 5 more, סילביה in IL Israel, FR France and Сильвия in FI Finland, RU Russia.

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●

recorded in Latvian

Sievietes vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Silvija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#612,423,8261.5M rec.—52Silvia163
MX Mexico#461,148,220965K rec.—4.2KSilvia220
PE Peru#91310,550242K rec.——Silvia96
DE Germany#83280,391259K rec.—1Silvia216
CL Chile#94198,35810K rec.—14Silvia108
GB United Kingdom#190183,282172K rec.—5Sylvia185
PL Poland#692181,946△3.9K rec.1 in 210182KSylvia63
BR Brazil#136180,610224K rec.1 in 1.2K204KSilvia202
US United States#218152,6762.3M rec.1 in 2.2K153KSylvia489
VE Venezuela#199128,20038K rec.——Silvia63
ES Spain#60120,455255K rec.1 in 415120KSilvia223
IT Italy#11276,21452K rec.—212Silvia176

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian30K72%
  • Latvian3.9K9%
  • German1.4K3%
  • Lithuanian1.4K3%
  • English1.3K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian30,23072%
Latvian3,9279%
German1,4393%
Lithuanian1,3583%
English1,2773%

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◐

Silvija is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name89 records spelled Silvija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Sil'Vija

40 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.

Over time●

05010015020002005201020152020112 · 2018

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Silvija in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199968
200066
200168
200271
200369
200467
200569
200676
200778
200883
200987
201091
201192
201298
201396
201499
2015100
2016102
2017105
2018112
2019111
2020110

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Sylva Koscina, b. 1933Silvija Sondeckienė, b. 1942Silvija Bitere, b. 1945Silvija Ģibiete, b. 1946Silvija Radzobe, b. 1950Silvija Stojanovska, b. 1960Silvija Talaja, b. 1978Silvija Erdelji, b. 1979Silvija Nedeljković, b. 1984Silvija Latožaitė, b. 1993

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●

Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Silvija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20214.6K#219
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—3.3K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—3.2K#171
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010616#239
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009616#240
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008616#233
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011615#241
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012609#247
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013608#249
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014605#253
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015603#253

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Silvija?
We estimate roughly 742 thousand people bear Silvija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Silvija have the most bearers?
Silvija is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled silvia.
Where is Silvija most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Silvija is densest in Poland — about 1 in 210 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Silvija compared with other names?
In Argentina, Silvija is the 61st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Silvija a male or female name?
Silvija 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 Silvija mean?
Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Silvija” — the 61st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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