Sylvester Boy Name

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The name Sylvester is of Latin origin, and means woodsy or of the woods. The table below indicates the number of times the name Sylvester has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Sylvester**
Use of the Name Sylvester for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
40,769	11,757	2,628	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Sylvester has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Sylvester last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1994, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Sylvester**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	153	89
1881	162	76
1882	183	74
1883	177	69
1884	201	67
1885	164	82
1886	187	73
1887	179	71
1888	180	83
1889	127	112
1890	153	93
1891	198	64
1892	162	98
1893	170	85
1894	152	101
1895	158	99
1896	152	110
1897	144	111
1898	148	115
1899	163	94
1900	161	131
1901	139	120
1902	141	135
1903	156	114
1904	155	124
1905	163	125
1906	159	125
1907	149	151
1908	143	165
1909	164	151
1910	153	201
1911	153	219
1912	166	349
1913	157	463
1914	164	539
1915	164	707
1916	171	716
1917	175	711
1918	172	769
1919	173	749
1920	175	801
1921	185	760
1922	195	709
1923	191	726
1924	199	702
1925	203	689
1926	201	690
1927	219	609
1928	221	596
1929	224	572
1930	219	594
1931	226	523
1932	217	558
1933	232	496
1934	230	502
1935	224	529
1936	238	475
1937	245	477
1938	237	500
1939	243	475
1940	257	464
1941	237	538
1942	267	496
1943	270	501
1944	249	537
1945	261	499
1946	278	532
1947	275	608
1948	276	587
1949	277	589
1950	259	636
1951	266	638
1952	282	599
1953	274	645
1954	280	630
1955	283	644
1956	297	619
1957	311	602
1958	320	579
1959	327	560
1960	347	504
1961	349	517
1962	374	463
1963	371	458
1964	409	386
1965	397	389
1966	425	324
1967	440	295
1968	473	257
1969	497	242
1970	514	246
1971	474	290
1972	531	224
1973	503	241
1974	575	196
1975	545	217
1976	593	189
1977	571	217
1978	562	222
1979	543	248
1980	612	204
1981	582	214
1982	582	219
1983	634	182
1984	585	209
1985	633	193
1986	634	201
1987	652	198
1988	666	203
1989	710	193
1990	713	203
1991	905	135
1992
1993	904	142
1994	962	132
Totals:		40,769		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Sylvester as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Sylvester appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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Sylvester Boy Name

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