Silvester
Silvester is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 836th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196032 births
- Best rank
- #836in 1884
- Since 1884
- 1,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,306 boys have been named Silvester in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 32 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Silvester | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13 | |
| 1900s | 31 | |
| 1910s | 133 | |
| 1920s | 218 | |
| 1930s | 121 | |
| 1940s | 103 | |
| 1950s | 170 | |
| 1960s | 177 | |
| 1970s | 83 | |
| 1980s | 99 | |
| 1990s | 88 | |
| 2000s | 53 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Silvester was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Silvester
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Staffordpeak 1959
- Thurstonpeak 1918
- Gardnerpeak 1915
- Arniepeak 1960
- Cleonpeak 1921
- Beecherpeak 1921
- Hebertpeak 1928
- Reynoldspeak 1923
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.