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The DESILVA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,986 7698 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 110 29573 0 2
Change since 1880 +3876 +21875 +N/A +13
Other Countries
Australia 43 28718 0 3
United Kingdom 140 20342 0 3
Top States for DESILVA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 978 2838 0.003 29
New York 526 3263 0.003 28
Massachusetts 371 2131 0.006 58
Florida 276 6310 0.002 17
New Jersey 239 3586 0.003 28
Top States for DESILVA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 122 671 0.010 101
Rhode Island 66 2198 0.006 63
Massachusetts 371 2131 0.006 58
Washington DC 24 2224 0.004 42
California 978 2838 0.003 29

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DESILVA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DESILVA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DESILVA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DESILVA by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DESILVA

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Hindu

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DESILVA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DESILVA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 372 9.33
Mixed Race 357 8.96
White (Hispanic) 306 7.68
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.35
Asian/Pacific 1,038 26.04
White (Caucasian) 1,899 47.64

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DESILVA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DESILVA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DESILVA.

Similar names to DESILVA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESILVA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DESILVA

The following words are slight variants of DESILVA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.