Silver
Silver is the 1,651st most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,205 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,100.
By the numbers
- People
- 21,205
- Rank
- 1,651st
- How common
- 1 in 14,100
- Per 100,000
- 7.1
Where the name comes from
Origin an occupational name
As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Silver described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Silver
- Horace Silver (1928–2014)American jazz pianist and composer
- Ron Silver (1946–2009)American actor
- Adam Silver (born 1962)American businessman and NBA commissioner
- Joel Silver (born 1952)American film producer
- Nate Silver (born 1978)American statistician, journalist, and poker player
- Scott Silver (born 1964)American film director and screenwriter
- Stacy Silver (born 1981)Czech pornographic actress and director
- Vivian Silver (1949–2023)Canadian-born Israeli peace activist
People named Silver with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Silver
Also a first name
Silver has been given to 2,277 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 2023. 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.