The Sylvestre surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,195 people carried this name — #20,599 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 2,435 people named Sylvestre.
77 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 93 départements, most often Drôme.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
49 people named Sylvestre live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sylvestre.
- Switala 444 · U.S. census
- Sy 2,787 · U.S. census
- Sydor 326 · U.S. census
- Sylla 709 · U.S. census
- Sylva 1,841 · U.S. census
- Sylvain 1,707 · U.S. census
- Syre 145 · U.S. census
- Syren 103 · U.S. census
- Syx 273 · U.S. census
- Szabo 7,672 · U.S. census
- Szafran 535 · U.S. census
- Szafranski 1,183 · U.S. census
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