dos Silva Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
dos Silva Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 68 | 1:3,148,152 | 91,004 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
dos Silva Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name dos Silva Come From? nationality or country of origin
dos Silva is carried by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name dos Silva? popularity and diffusion
The last name dos Silva is the 2,273,756th most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. The surname is mostly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of dos Silva are found; 97 percent are found in South America and 97 percent are found in Luso-South America.
The surname is most prevalent in Brazil, where it is carried by 68 people, or 1 in 3,148,152. In Brazil dos Silva is most numerous in: São Paulo, where 18 percent reside, Pernambuco, where 15 percent reside and Alagoas, where 9 percent reside. Other than Brazil dos Silva exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in France, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| do Silva | 94 | 123 | / |
| das Silva | 89 | 646 | / |
| das Silvas | 84 | 4 | / |
| das Sailva | 84 | 1 | / |
| da Silva | 82 | 13,300,564 | / |
| do Silvo | 82 | 6 | / |
| do Selva | 82 | 1 | / |
| da Silvas | 78 | 134 | / |
| da Silvaa | 78 | 71 | / |
| da Sailva | 78 | 68 | / |
| da Ssilva | 78 | 54 | / |
| da Sislva | 78 | 20 | / |
| da Suilva | 78 | 20 | / |
| da Silvga | 78 | 7 | / |
| da Silvaz | 78 | 6 | / |
| da Soilva | 78 | 5 | / |
| da Silvap | 78 | 3 | / |
| das Sylva | 78 | 3 | / |
| da Silhva | 78 | 2 | / |
| da Seilva | 78 | 1 | / |
| da Sjilva | 78 | 1 | / |
| do Silvio | 78 | 1 | / |
| da Silvai | 78 | 1 | / |
| da Silvat | 78 | 1 | / |
| das Selvas | 74 | 3 | / |
| dos Sylvie | 74 | 1 | / |
| Da-Silva | 71 | 15,309 | / |
| da Sylva | 71 | 511 | / |
| da Selva | 71 | 35 | / |
| da Silvo | 71 | 19 | / |
| da Silve | 71 | 18 | / |
| da Cilva | 71 | 16 | / |
| da Silvi | 71 | 4 | / |
| da Sílva | 71 | 3 | / |
| da Zilva | 71 | 3 | / |
| da Gilva | 71 | 3 | / |
| da Xilva | 71 | 2 | / |
| do Selvo | 71 | 1 | / |
| da Silver | 67 | 63 | / |
| do Sylvie | 67 | 3 | / |
| Da-Silvas | 67 | 1 | / |
| da Silves | 67 | 1 | / |
| da Silvio | 67 | 1 | / |
| Da-Sylva | 59 | 24 | / |
| Da-Silver | 56 | 28 | / |
| da Sylvie | 56 | 6 | / |
| da Cislva | 56 | 1 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to dos Silva
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