How common is the surname Silvestri?

4,638 people in the United States had the surname Silvestri in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,569 Americans. It ranked 7,201st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Silvestri?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Silvestri identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Silvestri?

Alan Silvestri, American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer, followed by Marc Silvestri.

Where is the surname Silvestri most common?

Wikidata records people named Silvestri in the United States.

Is the surname Silvestri getting more or less common?

More common. 4,448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,638 in 2010, up 4.3%.

The surname Silvestri

An Italian surname, carried by 4,638 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S412

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Silvestri is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Silvestri.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,638 people named Silvestri in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,569 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,448.

#7,201

rank among US surnames

4,638

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,953)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,198	Middlebrooks	4,643	66,497
#7,199	Tristan	4,642	66,511
#7,200	Serafin	4,641	66,526
#7,201	Tryon	4,638	66,569
#7,203	Rigney	4,637	66,583

Who is named Silvestri

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

94% of people named Silvestri identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Silvestris

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Alan Silvestri
American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer, born 1950
Marc Silvestri
American comic book creator, born 1958

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Silvestri

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

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Silvestri come from?: Borrowed from Italian Silvestri.
How common is the surname Silvestri?: 4,638 people in the United States had the surname Silvestri in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,569 Americans. It ranked 7,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Silvestri?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Silvestri identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Silvestri?: Alan Silvestri, American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer, followed by Marc Silvestri.
Where is the surname Silvestri most common?: Wikidata records people named Silvestri in the United States.
Is the surname Silvestri getting more or less common?: More common. 4,448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,638 in 2010, up 4.3%.