Given name
Sílvia
“wood, forest”
Sílvia is a feminine given name from Latin, meaning “wood, forest.” It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinSilvia
Meaning & origin
The story
In Portuguese use, Sílvia has a related form in Silvia. The history of Silvia gives this family its wider story. In Roman legend, Rhea Silvia is the mother of Romulus and Remus. Shakespeare later used Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, adding an English literary association to a name with a long Italian history.
Explained through its name family
Sílvia’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Sílvia has a related form in Sylvia. In Portuguese usage, Sílvia has a related form in Sylvia. In Portuguese usage, Sílvia has a related form in Silvia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sílvia has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Sílvia comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sílvia
- Sílvia Soler EspinosaSpanish tennis playerborn 1987
- Sílvia MuntCatalan actress and directorborn 1957
- Sílvia Pérez CruzSpanish singerborn 1983
- Sílvia AlbertoPortuguese television presenter and actressborn 1981
- Sílvia MarsóSpanish actressborn 1963
- Sílvia PfeiferBrazilian actressborn 1958
- Sílvia OrriolsSpanish politicianborn 1984
- Sílvia Rebeloassociation football playerborn 1989
- Sílvia LutucutaAngolan Health minister and university teacherborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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