Silveste Surname

1,252,959th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 184 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Haiti

Silveste Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Silveste Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil891:2,405,33073,774
Haiti581:184,2057,235
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
Angola41:6,747,3046,999
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
England11:55,718,059489,080
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States311:1,619,95885,073

Silveste (578) may also be a first name.

Silveste Last Name Facts

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

Silveste has its highest incidence in Brazil. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Silveste? popularity and diffusion

The surname Silveste is the 1,252,959th most common family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 83 percent of Silveste live; 49 percent live in South America and 48 percent live in Luso-South America. It is also the 348,378th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 578 people.

The surname Silveste is most frequent in Brazil, where it is held by 89 people, or 1 in 2,405,330. In Brazil Silveste is most common in: Pernambuco, where 15 percent reside, Bahia, where 13 percent reside and São Paulo, where 10 percent reside. Other than Brazil this last name exists in 12 countries. It is also common in Haiti, where 32 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 11 percent reside.

Silveste Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Silveste has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Silveste surname decreased 90 percent between 1880 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 Silveste
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