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    The surname Silvas

    A Spanish surname, carried by 4,963 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S412

    Silvas: #6,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Silvas #6,798, 4,963 people Silvas: #6,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Silvas #6,798, 4,963 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Silvas is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Silvas.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,963 people named Silvas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,209 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,006.

    #6,798
    rank among US surnames
    4,963
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.9%
    change since 2000 (was #7,657)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,792Coulson4,96662,172
    #6,793Fuhrman4,96562,184
    #6,796Steelman4,96462,197
    #6,798Silvas4,96362,209
    #6,799Hostetter4,96062,247

    Who is named Silvas

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Silvas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 13% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 82%
    • White (not Hispanic) 13%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 3.0%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Silvas

    Silvas has the Soundex code S412, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S412.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Silvas come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Silvas.
    How common is the surname Silvas?
    4,963 people in the United States had the surname Silvas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,209 Americans. It ranked 6,798th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Silvas?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Silvas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 13% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Silvas getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,006 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,963 in 2010, up 24%.