Sylwana
Fewer than 140 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it in years. From Latin, it means "of the forest": most Poles will never meet a Sylwana.
Sylwana Pronunciation
Sylwana is pronounced sihl-VAH-nah (/sɨlˈvana/).
What Sylwana means
Where Sylwana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sylwana comes from Latin, from silva, the word for forest. The Romans built a whole family of names on that root. Silvanus was their god of woodlands and field boundaries, and the masculine Sylwan sits directly on his name. The short meaning stays close to the source: of the forest, in Polish leśna, należąca do lasu.
The name has a male counterpart in Sylwan, and a wider Latin kinship in Sylwester and Sylwia. All of them go back to the same trees. Sylwana keeps a feminine ending and holds the meaning steady.
On a Polish class register, Sylwana stands apart from the Zuzannas and Julias. It is uncommon. The name asks to be read twice. What it says, once read, is plain: of the forest.
When Sylwana celebrates name day
Sylwana appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 28 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Sylwana
1 in 164554 women in Poland is named Sylwana. 137 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2821 among female names.
Sylwana as a middle name
Sylwana is a first name for 137 women in Poland and a middle name for another 85, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 720th, between Lia (85) and Iwa (84).
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#718 Lan85
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#719 Lia85
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#720 Sylwana85
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#721 Iwa84
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#722 Viktoriia84