Sylvester is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Sylvester is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Sylvester. In the SmartGenius ranking, Sylvester is #1,869 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 35,641 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sylvester. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Sylvester annualy. This means that there have been boys named Sylvester who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Sylvester have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Sylvester even more than any other time: in 1889, it holds its present record at rank #121 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sylvester was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Sylvester has never been ranked higher than #121. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,893 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 70 boys named Sylvester were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Sylvester were born, there have been 115 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With nine letters, the name Sylvester is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Sylvester and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sylvester, you can simply say:
Sun
Yoyo
Lion
Violin
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Sylvester
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sylvester sounds like this:
