Boy
Sylvester
Sylvester is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.
LatinLatin "silvestris"
EtymologyMeaning "of the woods"
Births by decade
1900s
1,411
1910s
5,542
1920s
7,028
1930s
5,232
1940s
5,402
1950s
6,223
1960s
3,870
1970s
2,311
1980s
2,023
1990s
1,213
2000s
735
2010s
536
Peaked in the 1920s · 41,526 total U.S. births since 1900