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Sylwia Sylwia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIL-vee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Polish Sylvia (Saint Sylvia + woodland)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "polish sylvia (saint sylvia + woodland)".

Sylwia is a girls' name meaning polish sylvia (saint sylvia + woodland).

Polish Sylvia (Saint Sylvia + woodland).

The name in its native script.

Sylwia
Transliteration
Sylwia
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪl.vi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sylwia stands.

Sylwia 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.

Sylwias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Sylvia + Sylvia Plath
Saint Sylvia of Rome 6th c. mother of Pope Gregory the Great + Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 American poet + The Bell Jar 1963 + Ariel 1965 + Latin silva forest
Christian + American literature

Names connected to Sylwia.

The number behind Sylwia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sylwia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.