Silva

Silva is the 157th most common surname in the United States, shared by 162,724 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,837.

By the numbers

People: 162,724
Rank: 157th
How common: 1 in 1,837
Per 100,000: 54.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Silva described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 60.6%
White, not Hispanic 31.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 1945)president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023
David Silva (born 1986)Spanish association football player
Thiago Silva (born 1984)Brazilian association football player
Aníbal Cavaco Silva (born 1939)Portuguese politician
Bernardo Silva (born 1994)Portuguese association football player
Gilberto Silva (born 1976)Brazilian footballer
Rafael Pereira da Silva (born 1990)Brazilian footballer
Eduardo da Silva (born 1983)Croatian footballer

People named Silva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Silva

Also a first name

Silva has been given to 911 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1969. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.