Silve
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Silve is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 123K◐
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈553 ◐
- Sources
- 102 ●
- 1 in 123K ◐
across 1 country
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈553 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 123K | 56 | Silve | 102 |
| US United States | — | — | — | 131 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 43 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | 86 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 82 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | 28 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | 15 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 553 people in France bear this name (about 1 in 123K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French2.3K52%
- English1.1K24%
- Spanish79518%
- Portuguese1133%
- Italian291%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 2,298 | 52% |
| English | 1,076 | 24% |
| Spanish | 795 | 18% |
| Portuguese | 113 | 3% |
| Italian | 29 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 11 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Claude Silveb. 1887FRFrench writer
- Bertil Silveb. 1905FIFinnish association football player (1905-1969)
- Arthur SilveCAeconomist and university professor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,868 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 206 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 147 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 118 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 110 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 101 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 90 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 82 | #6,153 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Silve?
- We estimate roughly 553 people bear Silve (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Silve have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 553 people bear Silve in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled silve.
- Where is Silve most common?
- Silve is densest in France, where we estimate about 1 in 123 thousand people carry it.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Silve”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.