Given name
Sylwia
“forest”
Sylwia is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Polish.
Original LatinSilvia
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sylwia goes back to Latin Silvia, meaning “forest.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sylwia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 119
- 0 boys · 119 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,513 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sylwia’s family of names
In Polish usage, Sylwia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sylvia. In Polish usage, Sylwia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Silvia. In Polish usage, Sylwia has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Sylvie.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Sylwia has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Sylwia comes from · 1 name
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- SilviaLatin, Italian
- SylvieFrench, Czech
- SylviaSwedish, English
- SilvieCzech
- СильвияRussian
- Sylwiuszhas masculine form
- SzilviaHungarian
- SílviaPortuguese, Catalan
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People named Sylwia
- Sylwia GrzeszczakPolish singerborn 1989
- Sylwia GruchałaPolish fencerborn 1981
- Sylwia Bogackasport shooterborn 1981
- Sylwia JaśkowiecPolish cross-country skierborn 1986
- Sylwia ChutnikPolish writerborn 1979
- Sylwia GliwaPolish actressborn 1978
- Sylwia MatysikPolish association football playerborn 1997
- Sylwia ZyzańskaPolish archerborn 1997
- Sylwia SpurekPolish politician (born 1976)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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