Silveira

Silveira is the 5,279th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,371 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,371
Rank: 5,279th
How common: 1 in 46,900
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Silveira.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.8%
Hispanic or Latino 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Silveira

Nise da Silveira (1905–1999)Brazilian psychiatrist
Henrique da Silveira (1901–1973)fencer
Leonor Silveira (born 1970)Portuguese actress
Regina Silveira (born 1939)university professor and researcher active in Brazil

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

Surnames like Silveira

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.