Sylvester
9
Babies in 2024
+29%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 20
-50%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sylvester
Sylvester appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #2,443 with 9 boys registered in England & Wales.
Sylvester reached its peak in 2021, when 20 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,290 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 9 represents 45% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 229 boys have been officially registered with the name Sylvester in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 134 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.