The Silvas surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,963 people carried this name — #6,798 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 59,500 people counted. That is up 24% from 4,006 in 2000.

Look up another surname

Share

In Argentina’s national register

At least 89 people named Silvas live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Santa Fe 50
Córdoba 15
Tucumán 13
Buenos Aires Province 11

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Silvas in American newspapers,
1909–1922.

Newspaper page from La Prensa carrying the name Silvas
La Prensa 1922-06-10
Newspaper page from El Regidor carrying the name Silvas
El Regidor 1909-09-23
Newspaper page from Imperial Valley Press carrying the name Silvas
Imperial Valley Press 1914-03-16

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 102,751 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Silvas in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1980s.

87 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Silvas. The most, 21, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 2.1 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 33
New South Wales 22
Victoria 15
ACT (Canberra) 9
South Australia 4
Western Australia 3
Tasmania 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Silvas.

In the public record

People named Silvas,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States200 records

200 records of the Silvas name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 88
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 76
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 32
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Selso C. Silvas

    Born 1924 in Texas. Enlisted 1945 at Houston; farmer from Matagorda County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at South Park Cemetery, Pearland, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jorge Alvarado Silvas

    Born 1948; from Douglas, Arizona. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Kontum, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Schrisloff Silvas

    Arrived at New York in 1887 aboard the Sirius from Rio De Janeiro, aged 36; laborer. From Austria.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 200 records for Silvas in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

France2 records

2 records of the Silvas name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Carmen Silvas

    Born 1909 in Spain; died 2000 in Le Péage-de-Roussillon (Isère).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Giovanni Silvas

    Born 1925 in Italy; died 1995 in Dijon (Côte-d'Or).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Silvas name in the Netherlands Dutch church registers before 1811
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Clara Silvas

    Married in 1725 in Rotterdam; born in Wesel.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Silvas.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Silvas is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

See the Silvas volume
Scroll to Top