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The SILVA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 126,164 214 0.047 468
United States (1880 census) 2,992 2045 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +123172 +1831 +0.041 +408
Other Countries
Australia 824 1972 0.005 50
United Kingdom 1,491 3778 0.003 32
Top States for SILVA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 34,702 64 0.102 1,025
Texas 16,656 140 0.080 799
Massachusetts 14,281 12 0.225 2,249
Florida 10,188 166 0.064 637
New Jersey 5,512 99 0.066 655
Top States for SILVA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 3,209 4 0.306 3,061
Massachusetts 14,281 12 0.225 2,249
New Mexico 2,556 60 0.141 1,405
Hawaii 1,554 20 0.128 1,283
California 34,702 64 0.102 1,025

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SILVA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SILVA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SILVA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SILVA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SILVA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SILVA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SILVA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SILVA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 517 0.41
White (Hispanic) 73,364 58.15
White (Caucasian) 42,492 33.68
Mixed Race 5,993 4.75
Asian/Pacific 2,296 1.82
Black/African American 1,501 1.19

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SILVA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SILVA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of SILVA.

Similar names to SILVA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SILVA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SILVA

The following words are slight variants of SILVA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.