Silester Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Romania
Highest density in:
Romania

Silester Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Silester Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Romania421:478,04536,914
England61:9,286,343223,652
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:5,021,868210,693

The alternate forms: Sileșter (1) are calculated separately.

Silester (43) may also be a first name.

Silester Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Silester Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Silester is most common in Romania. It can also be found as: Sileșter. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Silester? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,746,821st most numerous surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Silester live; 84 percent live in Eastern Europe and 84 percent live in Romanian Europe. It is also the 1,545,828th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 43 people.

This last name is most commonly used in Romania, where it is borne by 42 people, or 1 in 478,045. In Romania Silester is mostly found in: Bacău County, where 100 percent reside. Excluding Romania this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 12 percent reside and Canada, where 2 percent reside.

Silester Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Silester has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the last name grew 600 percent between 1881 and 2014.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Silester
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