Sylvester Forename
4,289th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 245,520 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Sierra Leone
Sylvester Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin Silvester ‘woody’, ‘growing or found in a wood'. It was the name of three popes, the first of whom, later canonized, was said to have baptized the Emperor Constantine to have cured him of his leprosy, and to have received in return the ‘Donation of Constantine’.
Read More About This ForenameSylvester Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 68,996 | 1:2,574 | 469 |
| United States | 100% | 28,563 | 1:12,693 | 1,256 |
| Ghana | 99% | 25,227 | 1:1,070 | 227 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 21,859 | 1:324 | 79 |
| Kenya | 100% | 14,603 | 1:3,171 | 537 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 14,224 | 1:3,711 | 646 |
| Zambia | - | 11,380 | 1:1,393 | 286 |
| South Africa | 93% | 7,575 | 1:7,199 | 1,321 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 6,847 | 1:3,156 | 569 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 5,909 | 1:2,610 | 473 |
| Liberia | 100% | 5,221 | 1:845 | 162 |
| Malawi | 99% | 4,696 | 1:3,644 | 594 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 4,682 | 1:6,504 | 745 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,168 | 1:692 | 176 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 2,377 | 1:3,430 | 377 |
| Uganda | 99% | 1,573 | 1:26,037 | 1,934 |
| England | 100% | 1,535 | 1:36,223 | 1,904 |
| India | 100% | 1,400 | 1:867,770 | 59,324 |
| Philippines | 99% | 1,272 | 1:83,341 | 4,996 |
| Namibia | - | 1,042 | 1:2,307 | 429 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,036 | 1:93,318 | 2,038 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1,008 | 1:158,196 | 9,003 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,002 | 1:20,758 | 2,728 |
| Canada | 100% | 812 | 1:40,805 | 2,906 |
| Ireland | 100% | 703 | 1:6,605 | 573 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 699 | 1:44,081 | 5,366 |
| Botswana | 100% | 696 | 1:3,139 | 549 |
| Togo | - | 659 | 1:10,985 | 1,550 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 602 | 1:28,077 | 2,380 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 582 | 1:2,339 | 452 |
| Poland | 100% | 424 | 1:89,687 | 2,012 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 413 | 1:431 | 41 |
| Barbados | - | 318 | 1:911 | 216 |
| Indonesia | - | 243 | 1:1,061,579 | 64,763 |
| Guyana | 100% | 213 | 1:3,583 | 678 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 176 | 1:3,301 | 485 |
| Austria | 100% | 153 | 1:55,648 | 1,584 |
| Denmark | - | 146 | 1:38,695 | 1,653 |
| Brazil | 100% | 131 | 1:1,635,390 | 36,807 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 126 | 1:789 | 132 |
| Swaziland | - | 103 | 1:12,623 | 1,554 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 102 | 1:538 | 75 |
| Belgium | 100% | 98 | 1:117,245 | 3,744 |
| Dominica | - | 88 | 1:858 | 168 |
| Egypt | 100% | 87 | 1:1,056,333 | 18,582 |
| Grenada | 100% | 87 | 1:1,243 | 253 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 84 | 1:24,286 | 2,959 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 82 | 1:900,337 | 27,216 |
| Singapore | 100% | 78 | 1:80,603 | 7,147 |
| Australia | - | 65 | 1:210,117 | 5,134 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 98% | 63 | 1:1,771 | 331 |
| Scotland | 100% | 61 | 1:87,711 | 2,176 |
| Thailand | 99% | 61 | 1:1,148,620 | 39,695 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 60 | 1:1,829 | 374 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Sweden | 100% | 57 | 1:172,946 | 6,315 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 55 | 1:3,533,776 | 39,035 |
| Chile | 58% | 53 | 1:332,211 | 4,835 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 51 | 1:104,119 | 1,002 |
| Sudan | - | 49 | 1:771,571 | 2,562 |
| Micronesia | - | 37 | 1:2,878 | 384 |
| Peru | 100% | 34 | 1:935,043 | 12,870 |
| Norway | 100% | 32 | 1:160,385 | 4,349 |
| Spain | 100% | 32 | 1:1,454,061 | 10,156 |
| Hong Kong | - | 28 | 1:276,883 | 3,560 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 25 | 1:417,251 | 13,014 |
| Madagascar | - | 25 | 1:945,176 | 2,170 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 22 | 1:1,420 | 328 |
| France | 100% | 22 | 1:3,021,379 | 14,959 |
| Argentina | 58% | 21 | 1:2,036,821 | 7,601 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 20 | 1:2,562 | 386 |
| Seychelles | - | 19 | 1:4,877 | 888 |
| Brunei | - | 18 | 1:23,309 | 1,238 |
| Panama | 100% | 18 | 1:217,031 | 8,112 |
| New Zealand | - | 17 | 1:266,826 | 8,395 |
| Belize | 100% | 16 | 1:22,144 | 2,400 |
| Congo | 100% | 16 | 1:313,075 | 6,846 |
| Finland | 100% | 16 | 1:342,699 | 4,640 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 16 | 1:351,723 | 5,446 |
| Italy | 100% | 15 | 1:4,070,806 | 21,403 |
| Montserrat | - | 15 | 1:325 | 22 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 14 | 1:3,905 | 670 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 14 | 1:586,678 | 8,730 |
| Iceland | - | 13 | 1:28,155 | 1,788 |
| Mexico | 100% | 13 | 1:9,549,571 | 29,766 |
| China | - | 11 | 1:124,186,889 | 65,712 |
| Wales | 100% | 11 | 1:281,301 | 4,460 |
| Czechia | 100% | 10 | 1:1,065,616 | 3,543 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| South Korea | - | 9 | 1:616,047 | 14,026 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 9 | 1:794,666 | 24,808 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Qatar | 100% | 8 | 1:296,201 | 31,456 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 7 | 1:1,894 | 342 |
| Haiti | - | 7 | 1:1,532,422 | 18,706 |
| Israel | 91% | 6 | 1:1,400,486 | 16,782 |
| Benin | - | 5 | 1:2,115,169 | 40,564 |
| Guinea | - | 5 | 1:2,371,729 | 4,683 |
| Russia | 100% | 5 | 1:28,846,741 | 73,146 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| Bahamas | - | 4 | 1:99,842 | 1,712 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Suriname | 100% | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 3 | 1:20,433 | 1,694 |
| Ecuador | - | 3 | 1:5,908,973 | 18,111 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 2 | 1:8,054,214 | 10,362 |
| Japan | - | 2 | 1:63,993,028 | 72,606 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Venezuela | - | 2 | 1:15,100,946 | 147,145 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
Sylvester (95,819) may also be a surname.
Sylvester Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin Silvester ‘woody’, ‘growing or found in a wood'. It was the name of three popes, the first of whom, later canonized, was said to have baptized the Emperor Constantine to have cured him of his leprosy, and to have received in return the ‘Donation of Constantine’. The name was not uncommon in the Middle Ages (it is first noted in 1200) and gave rise to the surnames Silvester, Sylvester. Though less common since the Reformation, examples have been noted in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th C; one in 1580 and one in 1623 are of Silvester as a woman’s name.
Silvester Curia Regis Rolls 1200-1215, Feudal Aids 1303. Silvestre Hundred Rolls 1273.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Like the preceding and like the obsolete Sylvius, it is a m. equivalent of Sylvia. See also Silvester.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Another spelling of Silvester, q. v.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Latin (masculine) - From a forest, strange, homely.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
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Sample size: 5,300 (2014)
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