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A great name held back only by its age connotation. Mark my words that this will begin to take off a decade from now.
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I love the name Sylvester! As a Pokémon fan, I love both Sylvia and Sylvester because they are very similar to "Sylveon", which is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time! Like almost all Pokémon fans, I find Sylveon to be adorable, a very welcome addition to the Eeveelution family. "Sylveon" is such a cool name that is fun to say and rolls off the tongue easily. It's very strong, very useful in battle, and very loyal: I love its dex entry for Pokémon Y: "It wraps its ribbonlike feelers around the arm of its beloved Trainer and walks with him or her." And shiny Sylveon is absolutely amazing! Ever since X and Y were new, I always believed "Sylveon" could have been a human name as well, possibly as an alternative masculine version of "Sylvia." Fun fact: It is not a coincidence that the three names look and sound very similar. Sylveon was named after sylphs, and while the exact etymology of "sylph" is somewhat debated ("sylph" = "silva" + "nymph"), it is known that it is related to "silva", the Latin word for "forest", a root that Sylvia and Sylvester also derive from.
Famous bearers include Sylvester Stallone (American filmmaker) and Sylvester Turner (mayor of Houston, Texas). I personally don't know anyone named Sylvester in real life, but I would love to someday. I hope I have a friend named Sylvester someday who shares my main interests such as music and gaming.
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Famous bearers include Sylvester Stallone (American filmmaker) and Sylvester Turner (mayor of Houston, Texas). I personally don't know anyone named Sylvester in real life, but I would love to someday. I hope I have a friend named Sylvester someday who shares my main interests such as music and gaming.
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Snooty and pretentious, but also ugly. Why would you nickname someone Sly? It's like being called Manipulative or Cruel or Sneaky. Also, the "vest" stands out way too much.
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Lately this name has really been growing on me. I really like names like Sebastian and Alexander but worry they’re too ‘common’, maybe Sylvester could be the perfect alternative. I also like the nickname possibilities, Sylv, Sly, Vester, Sev (just not Sylvie…). And the meaning is perfection! It’s like it was meant for a wood fairy.
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I think of the fictional character Dr. Sylvester Ashling, the child psychologist with sleep-related powers, from the web series Epithet Erased. He is often called by the nickname Sylvie.
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Sylvester Pussycat first appeared as a character in 1939, but was not given a name until 1948. The name Sylvester was chosen because "Felis silvestis" is the scientific name of the European wildcat, which is the closet wild relative of the domestic cat.
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Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was an American minister often in the USA referred to as the 'father of vegetarianism' whose preaching inspired the invention of the earliest of modern cereals, and the naming of graham flour products such as the graham cracker.
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This is a great name - it suits all ages! I love the sound of it and its connection to nature! It's trending but still unique.
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Very intricate and fancy sounding! As others said, this would be a great name for a cat! Sylvester the Cat.
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I honestly like it. I also like the combo Sylvester Wolf.
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What an interesting and sadly underused name. I love that Sylvester means of the woods or of the forest. I think that with its intriguing look and sound its meaning adds a truly magical element to the name.
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Very fancy sounding. Nice for a cat.
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In 2018, 55 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Sylvester who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 222nd most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
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Sylvester is the county seat of Worth County, Georgia.
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Interesting name, but all anybody thinks about when they hear it is Sylvester Stallone and Sylvester from the Looney Toons cartoons.
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Oy- very dated. Seems like some old bald relative you'd have. "Hey, Uncle Sylvester...!"
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The name Sylvester was given to 73 boys born in the US in 2015.
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I think this is a very stylish and handsome name, I think it should be used more often.
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What a cute name for a little boy and a strong name for a handsome youth. I really like this name. The fact it's under used just adds to its charm I think, personally :)
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Looking at records of births and christenings in England from 16th to the 20th century, it seems that it was sometimes given to girls.
EXAMPLES (accessible via Ancestry & FamilySearch):
Sylvester Banes (christened in 1596)
Sylvester Ann Buer (born in 1858)
So in that sense, both Silvester and Sylvester were unisex names back in the olden days, though given more, slightly, to boys.
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EXAMPLES (accessible via Ancestry & FamilySearch):
Sylvester Banes (christened in 1596)
Sylvester Ann Buer (born in 1858)
So in that sense, both Silvester and Sylvester were unisex names back in the olden days, though given more, slightly, to boys.
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In response, maybe it's more of a case of 'boy's name given to a girl' than Sylvester being truly a unisex name? I know the difference between the two can be subtle and it can be difficult to draw a line between them, but this does seem like it might be closer to the 'boy's name on a girl' category.
I know in the American south there is a long history of girls being given a boy's name (sometimes as a single name and sometimes as a double-barreled name with a more feminine name. Like Carter-Anne or Dale-Mary. Usually the masculine name is a family name, sometimes a surname in the family), and we all know girls/women, or know stories of girls/women, given boys names because her parents had wanted or expected a boy, or perhaps because dad wanted a namesake, but it was unlikely that they would have more children.
My own great- grandmother's name was Archie. She was the last of 9 kids, all girls. Her sisters all had quite feminine, if dated, names. My great-grandmother was named Archie because it was the name they'd picked for a boy, and not only were they out of ideas for girl names, they also knew they were unlikely to have any more children, so no hope of a boy named Archie.
I've encountered other girls/women from the same time period named Archie in my genealogy research or while wandering old cemeteries, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that Archie was a unisex name in the American South at the turn of the century.
I think perhaps Sylvester falls in to this category as well. Not so much a unisex name as a masculine name that was occasionally given to girls.
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I know in the American south there is a long history of girls being given a boy's name (sometimes as a single name and sometimes as a double-barreled name with a more feminine name. Like Carter-Anne or Dale-Mary. Usually the masculine name is a family name, sometimes a surname in the family), and we all know girls/women, or know stories of girls/women, given boys names because her parents had wanted or expected a boy, or perhaps because dad wanted a namesake, but it was unlikely that they would have more children.
My own great- grandmother's name was Archie. She was the last of 9 kids, all girls. Her sisters all had quite feminine, if dated, names. My great-grandmother was named Archie because it was the name they'd picked for a boy, and not only were they out of ideas for girl names, they also knew they were unlikely to have any more children, so no hope of a boy named Archie.
I've encountered other girls/women from the same time period named Archie in my genealogy research or while wandering old cemeteries, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that Archie was a unisex name in the American South at the turn of the century.
I think perhaps Sylvester falls in to this category as well. Not so much a unisex name as a masculine name that was occasionally given to girls.
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An AMAZING name! I love Sylvester the Cat (he is awesome!). Sylvester Stallone is a great namesake plus a brilliant actor. These are my reasons why I think Sylvester is such a cool name. :D.
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The name Sylvester was given to 57 baby boys born in the US in 2012.
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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is a famous American actor.
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I really quite like this name, in all honesty, although it does remind me of the black-and-white cat, and the Rocky movies, but despite this, I really think it is rather quite a nice name. :-)
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Another famous actor who bears this name is "Doctor Who" star, Sylvester McCoy.
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Sylvester is the "puddy tat" who is always trying to eat Tweety Bird in the Looney Tunes cartoons.
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