Baby name
FADING
🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇪🇸 Silvina
/sil · VEE · nah/
Meaning
“Of the forest”
Argentine and Spanish feminine form of Silvino, from Latin Silvanus meaning 'of the forest'; especially common in Argentina through the 20th century.
Nicknames
sil
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Solidly retro; the silver-forest root is lovely but the name peaked decades ago in the Southern Cone.
The cultural moment.
Common in Argentina from the 1960s through 1990s, declining since.