Silvia

Silvia is the 6,346th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,153 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,153
Rank: 6,346th
How common: 1 in 58,000
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Feminine form of Silvius. In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.4%
Hispanic or Latino 10.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Silvia

Also a first name

Silvia has been given to 21,323 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1991. 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.