Sylvia


Gender:
Origin: Latin
529 famous people named Sylvia found on Wikipedia.
239744 female, 908 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 490-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 50-th in year 1937
Used in: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish

Meanings

Sylvia is feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia. The French form is Sylvie.

Fem. proper name, literally "inhabiting woods," from Latin silva "wood, forest" (see sylvan). Also the genus name of warblers, hence adjective Sylvian.

From Latin silva: forest, wood, of the forest.

Famous People: 529 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Sylvia Plath 1932 American poet, novelist and short story writer
2 Sylvia Browne 1936 American author
3 Sylvia Kristel 1952 Actress, model
4 Tim Sylvia 1976 American martial artist
5 Sylvia Seegrist 1960 American murderer
6 Sylvia Sidney 1910 1910-1999 American actress
7 Sylvia Robinson 1936 American singer and record producer
8 Sylvia Burwell 1965 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
9 Sylvia Ashley 1904 English model, actress and socialite
10 Sylvia Hoeks 1983 Dutch actress
11 Sylvia Earle 1935 American oceanographer
12 Sylvia Day 1973 American writer
13 Sylvia Rivera 1951 American transgender rights activist
14 Sylvia Miles 1932 Actress
15 Sylvia Pankhurst 1882 British suffragist, anti-colonialist
16 Sylvia Fine 1913 American lyricist and songwriter
17 Sylvia Llewelyn Davies 1866 Housewife
18 Sylvia Anderson 1927 British television and film producer, writer, voice actress and costume designer
19 Sylvia Fully 1988 Indonesian actress
20 Sylvia 1956 US singer
21 Sylvia Hermon 1955 British politician
22 Sylvia Fowles 1985 American women's basketball player
23 Sylvia Jeffreys 1985 Australian journalist
24 Sylvia Plachy 1943 American photographer
25 Sylvia Trent-Adams
26 Sylvia Sanchez 1964 Filipino actress
27 Sylvia Nasar 1947 American journalist
28 Sylvia Hitchcock 1946 American model
29 Sylvia Gore 1946 Footballer
30 Sylvia Bongo Ondimba 1965 First Lady of Gabon
31 Sylvia Massy 2000 American record producer
32 Sylvia Chang 1953 Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director
33 Sylvia Lim 1965 Singaporean politician
34 Sylvia Beach 1887 American-born bookseller and publisher
35 Sylvia Pasquel 1949 Mexican actress
36 Silvia González Pantoja 1969 Spanish singer
37 Sylvia Design 1972 Brazilian salesperson
38 Sylvia Rhone American businesswoman
39 Sylvia Salustti 1974 Brazilian actress
40 Sylvia Tyson 1940 Canadian musician
41 Sylvia Agnes Muc 1973 German actress
42 Sylvia Kay 1936 British actress
43 Sylvia Jefferies 1969 Actress
44 Sylvia Field 1901 Actress
45 Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893 Writer, poet, activist
46 Sylvia Geersen 1985 Dutch model
47 Sylvia Moy 1938 American songwriter and record producer
48 Sylvia Peters 1926 British actress
49 Sylvia Hatchell 1952 American basketball coach
50 Sylvia Witteman 1965 Dutch female columnist
51 Sylvia von Harden 1894 German journalist
52 Sylvia Leifheit 1975 German actress and television presenter
53 Sylvia de Leur 1933 Dutch actor, television actor, film actor and cabaret artist
54 Sylvia Bommes 1972 German television presenter and radio host
55 Sylvia Young 1939 Principal of Sylvia Young theatre school
56 Sylvia Rafael 1937 Israeli spy
57 Sylvia Mendez 1936 American activist
58 Sylvia La Torre 1933 Filipino actor-singer
59 Sylvia Wynter 1928 Jamaican writer
60 Sylvia Poggioli 1946 American journalist
61 Sylvia Stolz 1963 German lawyer
62 Sylvia Trench
63 Sylvia of Hollywood 1881 Exercise instructors
64 Sylvia Hollamby
65 Sylvia Allen 1947 American politician from Arizona
66 Sylvia McNair 1956 American opera singer, soprano
67 Sylvia Ratonel 1988 Singaporean singer
68 Sylvia Kollek 1970
69 Sylvia Bataille 1908 French actress
70 Sylvia Sáenz 1987
71 Sylvia Syms 1917 American jazz singer
72 Sylvia Mason-James 1959 British singer
73 Sylvia Pinel 1977 French politician
74 Sylvia Walby 1953 British sociologist
75 Sylvia Ashton-Warner 1908 New Zealand writer
76 Sylvia Perez 1961 American journalist
77 Sylvia Beach Whitman 1981 Anglo-French bookseller
78 Sylvia Dee 1914 American songwriter and writer
79 Sylvia Sleigh 1916 Welsh-American artist
80 Sylvia Bergé 1962 French actress
81 Sylvia Lewis 1931 American actress
82 Sylvia Vrethammar 1945 Swedish jazz and schlager singer
83 Sylvia Tóth 1944
84 Sylvia Lopez 1936 French actress
85 Sylvia Striplin 1954 American musician
86 Sylvia Rexach 1922 Puerto Rican composer
87 Sylvia Schenk 1952 German judge and athletics competitor
88 Sylvia Hanika 1959 German tennis player
89 Sylvia Saringer 1971 Austrian television presenter
90 Sylvia Haider 1959 Austrian actor and screenwriter
91 Colin Sylvia 1985 Australian rules footballer
92 Sylvia Lucas 1964 South African politician
93 Sylvia Crawley 1972 American women's basketball coach and player
94 Sylvia Olden Lee 1917 American vocal coach
95 Sylvia Brett 1885 British aristocrat
96 Sylvia Garcia 1950 American politician
97 Sylvia Fraser 1935 Canadian writer
98 Sylvia Fedoruk 1927 Canadian curler and politician
99 Sylvia Telles 1934 Brazilian singer
100 Sylvia Porter 1913 American economist and journalist
101 Sylvia Pantel 1961 German politician
102 Sylvia Bourdon 1949 French activist
103 Sylvia Morales 1943 American film director
104 Sylvia Coleridge 1909 British actress
105 Sylvia Thompson 1902 English novelist
106 Sylvia Ann Hewlett 1946 Academic
107 Sylvia Ratnasamy 1976 Belgian scientist
108 Sylvia Massari 1947 Brazilian actress
109 Sylvia Van Driessche 1976 Belgian journalist
110 Sylvia Wintergrün 1957 German musician
111 Sylvia Kauders 1921 American actor (1921-2016)
112 Sylvia Millecam 1956 Dutch actress
113 Sylvia Heal 1942 British politician
114 Sylvia Tella 1960 British singer
115 Sylvia Plimack Mangold 1938 American artist
116 Sylvia Tamale 1967 Ugandan academic
117 Sylvia del Villard 1928 Puerto Rican actress
118 Sylvia Kierkegaard Legal scholar
119 Sylvia Sayer 1904 British environmental conservator
120 Sylvia Sass 1951 Hungarian opera singer
121 Sylvia Lutfalla Maluf 1935 Brazilian businesswoman
122 Saucy Sylvia 1921 Canadian entertainer
123 Sylvia Shaw Judson 1897 American artist
124 Sylvia Manas 1948 Austrian actor (1948-1977)
125 Sylvia Schneider 2000 German canoer
126 Sylvia Serfaty 1975 French woman mathematician & academic
127 Sylvia Kotting-Uhl 1952 German politician
128 Sylvia Constantinidis 1962 Composer
129 Sylvia Sweeney 1956 Canadian television journalist
130 Sylvia Geszty 1934 Hungarian singer and opera singer
131 Barta Sylvia 1970
132 Sylvia Brooks Jazz vocalist and song stylist
133 Sylvia Juncosa American musician
134 Sylvia Ashton 1880 Actress
135 Sylvia Ostry 1927 Economist from Canada
136 Sylvia Breamer 1897 Actress
137 Sylvia Burka 1954 Canadian racing cyclist and speed skater
138 Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr 1903 British politician
139 Sylvia Arnold 1990 German association football player
140 Sylvia Lindenstrand 1941 Swedish actress
141 Sylvia Owori 1976 Ugandan businesswoman
142 Sylvia Pogorzelski 1985 American model
143 Sylvia Engdahl 1933 American children's and speculative fiction writer
144 Sylvia Canel 1958 German politician
145 Sylvia Lennick 1915 Canadian actress
146 Sylvia Blyden 1971 Sierra Leonean news publisher
147 Sylvia McLaughlin 1916 Environmentalist
148 Sylvia Meals 1943 American actress
149 Sylvia Lukan 1942 Austrian actor and voice actor
150 Sylvia Crowe 1901 British landscape architect and garden designer
151 Sylvia Brustad 1966 Norwegian politician
152 Sylvia Waugh 1935 British children's writer
153 Sylvia Lavin American architectural historian
154 Sylvia Benzinger 1978
155 Sylvia Zaradic Canadian actress
156 Sylvia Lance Harper 1895 Australian tennis player
157 Sylvia Schwartz 1983
158 Sylvia Jukes Morris British-born, U.S.-based biographer
159 Sylvia Edwards 1937 American abstract artist
160 Sylvia Pedlar 1901
161 Sylvia Gerasch 1969 Swimmer
162 Sylvia Pio 1878 Danish socialist
163 Sylvia Nooij 1984 Dutch football player
164 Sylvia van der Moer 1923 Dutch journalist
165 Sylvia Murphy Canadian singer
166 Sylvia Falcón
167 Sylvia McNeill 1947 British pop and rock singer and songwriter
168 Sylvia Sorrente 1941 French actress
169 Sylvia Ji
170 Sylvia Wolff 1967 German actress
171 Sylvia Sykes American dancer
172 Sylvia Scribner 1923 American psychologist
173 Sylvia Baca American government official
174 Sylvia Oluchi Nigerian actress
175 Sylvia Cook 2000 British ocean rower
176 Sylvia Steiner 1953 Brazilian judge
177 Sylvia Schmelkes 1948 Mexican sociologist
178 Sylvia Richardson French mathematician
179 Sylvia Saartje
180 Sylvia Schur 1917 American food writer
181 Sylvia Čápová-Vizváry 1947 Pianist
182 Sylvia Salvesen 1890 Norwegian resistance member
183 Sylvia Brownrigg 1964 American writer
184 Sylvia Bermann 1922 Argentinian psychiatrist
185 Sylvia Payne 1880 British medical doctor and psychoanalyst
186 Sylvia M. Broadbent 1932 American anthropologist
187 Sylvia H. Rambo 1936 United States federal judge
188 Sylvia Hamilton Canadian film director
189 Sylvia Zacharias 1944 German non-fiction writer and journalist
190 Sylvia Luke 1967 American politician
191 Sylvia Woods 1951 American harpist
192 Sylvia Hallett British musician and composer
193 Sylvia T. Ceyer 1953 American chemist
194 Sylvia Soublette 1923
195 Sylvia Molloy 1914 British artist
196 Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet 1984 Kenyan long-distance runner
197 Sylvia Rothschild British rabbi
198 Sylvia Pressler 1934 American judge
199 Sylvia Williams 1936 Museum director, curator, art historian and scholar of African art
200 Sylvia Ruuska 1942 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder