How common is the surname Silvestro?

1,147 people in the United States had the surname Silvestro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. It ranked 22,436th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Silvestro?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Silvestro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Silvestro getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,199 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,147 in 2010, down 4.3%.

The surname Silvestro

An Italian surname, carried by 1,147 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). Silvestro is more common than 86.2% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Silvestro.

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 1,147 people named Silvestro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. That is down 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,199.

#22,436

rank among US surnames

1,147

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-4.3%

change since 2000 (was #20,556)

Who is named Silvestro

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

93% of people named Silvestro identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Silvestro

Silvestro 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 Silvestro come from?: Borrowed from Italian Silvestro.
How common is the surname Silvestro?: 1,147 people in the United States had the surname Silvestro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. It ranked 22,436th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Silvestro?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Silvestro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Silvestro getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,199 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,147 in 2010, down 4.3%.