Entry № 9715 · Latin origin

Silvia Silvia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIL-vee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Of the forest (Queen Silvia of Sweden; Rhea Silvia of Rome)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "of the forest (queen silvia of sweden; rhea silvia of rome)".

Silvia is from the Latin silva (forest, wood) — also the modern Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German form of Sylvia.

Subject of countless Swedish royal histories.

Of the forest.

The name in its native script.

Silvia
Transliteration
Silvia
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪl.vi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Silvia stands.

Silvia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Silvias before her.

Real people
Queen Silvia of Sweden
Swedish monarch consort.
born 1943
Silvia Federici
Italian feminist philosopher.
born 1942
In fiction
Rhea Silvia
Mother of Romulus and Remus.

Names connected to Silvia.

The number behind Silvia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Silvia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.