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“forest”
/sil.vɛ̃/ · French
01 / Meaning & origin
Silvain is a masculine given name documented in French. It is a form of Sylvain, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “forest”.
Meaning: “forest”
No etymology text in the cited sources.
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2015: 5 boys (rank 5553). Documented as a given name in French.
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: SILVAIN
Recorded category boys
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 30 | 228 | rounded |
| 1901 | 25 | 247 | rounded |
| 1902 | 30 | 232 | rounded |
| 1903 | 25 | 263 | rounded |
| 1904 | 30 | 248 | rounded |
| 1905 | 30 | 249 | rounded |
| 1906 | 20 | 284 | rounded |
| 1907 | 30 | 249 | rounded |
| 1908 | 35 | 242 | rounded |
| 1909 | 25 | 270 | rounded |
| 1910 | 20 | 297 | rounded |
| 1911 | 20 | 296 | rounded |
| 1912 | 15 | 344 | rounded |
| 1913 | 15 | 335 | rounded |
| 1914 | 15 | 359 | rounded |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | 10 | 308 | rounded |
| 1917 | 10 | 367 | rounded |
| 1918 | 5 | 457 | rounded |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | 10 | 454 | rounded |
| 1921 | 5 | 540 | rounded |
| 1922 | 10 | 473 | rounded |
| 1923 | 10 | 496 | rounded |
| 1924 | 10 | 457 | rounded |
| 1925 | 10 | 518 | rounded |
| 1926 | 5 | 588 | rounded |
| 1927 | 15 | 411 | rounded |
| 1928 | 5 | 627 | rounded |
| 1929 | 5 | 738 | rounded |
| 1930 | 10 | 529 | rounded |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | 10 | 481 | rounded |
| 1933 | 10 | 464 | rounded |
| 1934 | 10 | 485 | rounded |
| 1935 | 5 | 564 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 725 | rounded |
| 1937 | 10 | 416 | rounded |
| 1938 | 5 | 712 | rounded |
| 1939 | 15 | 354 | rounded |
| 1940 | 10 | 471 | rounded |
| 1941 | 5 | 751 | rounded |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | 5 | 705 | rounded |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | 5 | 571 | rounded |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | 5 | 567 | rounded |
| 1948 | 10 | 583 | rounded |
| 1949 | 10 | 626 | rounded |
| 1950 | 5 | 959 | rounded |
| 1951 | 5 | 659 | rounded |
| 1952 | 5 | 729 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 799 | rounded |
| 1954 | 5 | 848 | rounded |
| 1955 | 5 | 911 | rounded |
| 1956 | 5 | 971 | rounded |
| 1957 | 10 | 669 | rounded |
| 1958 | 5 | 994 | rounded |
| 1959 | 5 | 930 | rounded |
| 1960 | 15 | 554 | rounded |
| 1961 | 15 | 550 | rounded |
| 1962 | 15 | 588 | rounded |
| 1963 | 10 | 806 | rounded |
| 1964 | 15 | 622 | rounded |
| 1965 | 25 | 437 | rounded |
| 1966 | 20 | 558 | rounded |
| 1967 | 25 | 492 | rounded |
| 1968 | 35 | 408 | rounded |
| 1969 | 20 | 593 | rounded |
| 1970 | 25 | 524 | rounded |
| 1971 | 30 | 528 | rounded |
| 1972 | 10 | 959 | rounded |
| 1973 | 10 | 1,037 | rounded |
| 1974 | 5 | 1,823 | rounded |
| 1975 | 10 | 1,000 | rounded |
| 1976 | 5 | 1,221 | rounded |
| 1977 | 10 | 1,119 | rounded |
| 1978 | 10 | 945 | rounded |
| 1979 | 10 | 1,223 | rounded |
| 1980 | 5 | 1,646 | rounded |
| 1981 | 10 | 1,184 | rounded |
| 1982 | 10 | 1,276 | rounded |
| 1983 | 15 | 1,021 | rounded |
| 1984 | 5 | 1,514 | rounded |
| 1985 | 10 | 1,225 | rounded |
| 1986 | 5 | 2,432 | rounded |
| 1987 | 5 | 1,804 | rounded |
| 1988 | 5 | 1,639 | rounded |
| 1989 | 10 | 1,344 | rounded |
| 1990 | 15 | 1,125 | rounded |
| 1991 | 10 | 1,540 | rounded |
| 1992 | 5 | 2,034 | rounded |
| 1993 | 10 | 1,364 | rounded |
| 1994 | 10 | 1,328 | rounded |
| 1995 | 5 | 2,393 | rounded |
| 1996 | 10 | 1,647 | rounded |
| 1997 | 10 | 1,744 | rounded |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,318 | rounded |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,502 | rounded |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,743 | rounded |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,734 | rounded |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | 5 | 4,281 | rounded |
| 2004 | 5 | 4,057 | rounded |
| 2005 | 5 | 4,050 | rounded |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,781 | rounded |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | 5 | 5,154 | rounded |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | 5 | 5,553 | rounded |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “SILVAIN” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Silvain— “living in a wood”
Silvain, _m._ _Fr._ Lat. living in a wood, 179
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
