Silence Surname
Approximately 1,602 people bear this surname
Silence Surname Definition:
From Saillans or Seillans, a comm, and market town of France, dep. Drôme.
Silence Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 654 | 1:26,176 | 3,951 |
| United States | 465 | 1:779,482 | 60,414 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Iran | 57 | 1:1,347,062 | 55,719 |
| South Africa | 48 | 1:1,128,702 | 66,097 |
| Belgium | 36 | 1:319,351 | 36,407 |
| India | 31 | 1:24,744,045 | 333,161 |
| Jamaica | 21 | 1:136,664 | 4,886 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Tanzania | 15 | 1:3,529,441 | 50,903 |
| China | 15 | 1:91,154,771 | 4,767 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| Haiti | 9 | 1:1,187,101 | 12,579 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Cambodia | 4 | 1:3,871,786 | 9,580 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 29 | 1:840,530 | 36,623 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 177 | 1:283,721 | 22,815 |
Silence (5,453) may also be a first name.
Silence Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
From Saillans or Seillans, a comm, and market town of France, dep. Drôme.
From the Danish, Seiling, Sillin; personal name (?).
Silence Demographics
Average Silence Salary in
United States
$40,627 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Silence Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Silence Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Silence is found in Malawi more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Silence? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 248,111th most frequently used family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 4,549,030 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 57 percent of Silence reside; 44 percent reside in Southern Africa and 44 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Silence is also the 91,023rd most frequently held first name in the world It is held by 5,453 people.
The surname Silence is most widely held in Malawi, where it is carried by 654 people, or 1 in 26,176. Not including Malawi this surname occurs in 39 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 29 percent live and Egypt, where 10 percent live.
Silence Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Silence has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 263 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 52 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Silence Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Silence last name are 36.56% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 83.33% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Silence earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 22.7% less than the national average, earning R 183,684 per year and in United States they earn 5.84% less than the national average, earning $40,627 USD per year.
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