Silvana
Only about a hundred Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Latin name meaning "of the forest," worn today by women and not by newborns.
Silvana Pronunciation
What Silvana means
Where Silvana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Silvana grows from the Latin word silva, meaning forest. The Romans gave that root to Silvanus, a god who watched over woodland and the boundaries of cultivated fields. The feminine form states the sense the record keeps: of the forest, or in Polish, związana z lasem.
The name settled most firmly in Italy and Spain, where Silvana reads as clearly as a common noun. Italian speakers hear silva behind it without effort. One documented bearer is Silvana Mangano, the Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s, whose films carried the name across Europe.
In Poland Silvana stays rare. A teacher reading it from a class register may pause before the v, a letter Polish spelling mostly avoids. The name still parses. The Polish name Sylwester grows from the same Latin root, silva.
How many people are named Silvana
1 in 208739 women in Poland is named Silvana. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3281 among female names.
Silvana as a middle name
Silvana is a first name for 108 women in Poland and a middle name for another 38, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1128th, between Rosita (38) and Szarlotta (38).
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#1126 Katie38
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#1127 Rosita38
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#1128 Silvana38
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#1129 Szarlotta38
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#1130 Waleriana38