Sylwan
Just over twenty Polish men carry it, so most people will never meet a Sylwan. The name comes from Latin for the woodland, someone who lives in the forest.
Sylwan Pronunciation
Sylwan is pronounced SIHL-vahn (/ˈsɨlvan/).
What Sylwan means
Where Sylwan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sylwan comes from Latin. Its root is silva, the word for forest, and that root fixes the meaning: of the woodland, one who lives among trees. The Romans gave the name Silvanus to a god of woods and field edges, invoked by herders and farmers who worked the land at the treeline.
The feminine variant is Sylwana, built on the same Latin stem. A boy called Sylwan and a girl called Sylwana carry the identical sense, las, life lived close to the forest.
Read down a class register and Sylwan sits among names of saints and kings, older than most of them by centuries. It stays short. Four letters do the work in Polish, and the meaning holds: of the forest, woodland.
When Sylwan celebrates name day
Sylwan appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 18 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Sylwan
1 in 1016485 men in Poland is named Sylwan. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9748 among male names.
Sylwan as a middle name
Sylwan is a first name for 21 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2704th, between Sulisław (13) and Tae (13).
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#2702 Storm13
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#2703 Sulisław13
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#2704 Sylwan13
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#2705 Tae13
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#2706 Teodoro13