Entry № 10224 · French origin

Sylvie Sylvie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ seel-VEE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"From the forest"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "from the forest".

Sylvie is the French form of Sylvia — from the Latin silva, meaning "forest." Rhea Silvia in Roman mythology was the mother of Romulus and Remus.

Sylvie Vartan (born 1944), the French singer, is a notable bearer.

From the forest. The French Sylvia.

The name in its native script.

Sylvie
Transliteration
Sylvie
Pronunciation
/ siːlˈviː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sylvie stands.

Sylvie 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.

Sylvies before her.

Real people
Sylvie Vartan
French singer.
born 1944
In fiction
Sylvie
Character in Marvel's Loki.
Disney+, 2021

Names connected to Sylvie.

The number behind Sylvie.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sylvie reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.