Silver
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning the precious metal silver.
Babies a year
58
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4201
5 babies
Silver by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Silver. In the US, 58 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 51 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Silver. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sylverprecious metal; a respelling of Silver6 in the US (2017)
- Silviaof the forest; wooded; a form of Sylvia142 in the US (2017)
- Silvaforest or woodland6 in the US (2017)
- Siljeblind; a form of sigrunn5 in the US (2017)
- Silviefrom the forest; a form of Sylvia3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Syler28 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean wealth
Like Silver, each of these has wealth in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Maddoxfortunate, beneficent; son of Madoc3,119 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Margaretpearl; precious gem2,242 in the US (2017)
- Maggiepearl; a form of Margaret271 in England and Wales (2025)
- Gemmagem or jewel1,241 in the US (2017)
- Margotpearl1,230 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Silver
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