Baby name
REVIVING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Sylvia
/SIL · vee · ah/
Meaning
“Of the forest”
From Latin Silvia, meaning 'forest' or 'from the woods'. Also the name of Romulus and Remus's mother.
Nicknames
silvi · syl
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Quietly beautiful and genuinely timeless, never peaked wildly, never crashed.
The cultural moment.
Experiencing a gentle revival in the UK and US as vintage names with botanical echoes come back.