Given name & surname
Sylvestre
“man from the forest”
Sylvestre is a variant of Sylvester. One Latin interpretation is “man from the forest.”
Original LatinSilvester
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sylvestre is a variant of Sylvester. One Latin interpretation is “man from the forest.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sylvestre through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 373 as a first name in 2020; 1,713 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sylvestre’s family of names
Sylvestre has a related form in Sylvester. In French usage, Sylvestre has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sylvester. In French usage, Sylvestre was borrowed from the Latin form Silvester.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sylvestre has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Sylvestre comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sylvestre
- Sylvestre NtibantunganyaPresident of Burundiborn 1956
- Sylvestre IlungaCongolese politicianborn 1947
- Sylvestre François LacroixFrench mathematician (1765-1843)
- Sylvestre AmoussouBeninese film director, actor, and film producerborn 1964
- Sylvestre NsanzimanaRwandan politician (1936-1999)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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