The SYLVIA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,835	5480	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	294	14508	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+5541	+9028	+0.001	+16
Other Countries
Australia	47	26797	0	3
United Kingdom	19	28630	0	0

Top States for SYLVIA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,295	301	0.036	361
California	606	4635	0.002	18
Florida	476	4164	0.003	30
Rhode Island	318	354	0.030	303
Connecticut	249	1713	0.007	73
Top States for SYLVIA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,295	301	0.036	361
Rhode Island	318	354	0.030	303
New Hampshire	113	1719	0.009	91
Connecticut	249	1713	0.007	73
Maine	65	3039	0.005	51

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SYLVIA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SYLVIA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SYLVIA in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SYLVIA by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SYLVIA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SYLVIA surname.

Ethnic distribution of SYLVIA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	201	3.44
White (Hispanic)	199	3.41
Black/African American	173	2.96
Asian/Pacific	41	0.7
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.46
White (Caucasian)	5,194	89.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SYLVIA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SYLVIA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to SYLVIA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SYLVIA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.