Sylvia, Silvia, Sylvie

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Which, if any?

Sylvie
Sylvia

Not Silvia.

Silvia is the Roman spelling and actually closer to the Latin from whence it came!

It's my nans name and everyone calls her Sylv. I can't imagine a baby being called it it seems so old

My dyslexic brain read Silvia as sliver. For that reason alone I'd go with Sylvia or Sylvie.

Sylvie.

Sylvia is just too granny for me and I read Silvia as sliver

Ooo I've been waiting for Sylvia to one back in. I love it! Shame I'm past any more babies now!

Sylvia as proper name and then I'd definitely call her Sylv/Sylvie as a nickname.

It's pretty when you look at the name objectively I think

Love this name, any of them op .

Sylvia

I think they're all fine, though I'm not keen on Sylvie - too fey.

Sylvie. Cute as a button.

Sylvia. Dd (age 17) has a friend with this name and it is lovely. Classic but rare/

It's a very old lady name. And so is Sylvie.

Being an old lady name doesn't matter at all. A baby isn't an old lady. Old ladies were not always old ladies either!

Sylvia.

Sylvie is nice as a nn for Sylvia, as a full name I agree with the poster who said it's fey.

Silvia is fine if you're Italian, otherwise it's a bit random when the pronunciation is the same. Also, it reminds me of Berlusconi.

What does 'fey' mean?

Sylvia

Sylvia is such a beautiful name

I love Sylvie

Slight bias as it's my DD's name, but I love it and am still so pleased we chose it! It's a name everyone is familiar with but is still very unusual (except in France where Sylvie is the name of everybody's mother/auntie/cousin!). She is Sylvie most of the time although her name is Sylvia (I wanted to make sure I could claim she was named after the suffragette!). The sound of the name sounds so beautiful to me, like Silvery (as a pp sort of said).

Surprised it's not making more of a comeback tbh, like Ivy, Elsie etc.

The baby name book I read recently suggested that Silvia is the original spelling, but Sylvia is more common now. I was discussing the name with my mum (I love it but OH has already vetoed ) and she said she preferred Sylvie. All lovely though.

Silvia. Sylvia doesn't appeal to me (bit granny imo) and I'm not keen on Sylvie for an adult. I'm not keen on a lot of ie names as I think they can be infantilising and cutesy, and Sylvie falls into that bracket for me. It's a pretty nickname though.

Sylvie

Sylvie.

A girl at our school was called Silvana, lovely name and I've never heard of another