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The SILAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,153 7399 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 584 8524 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3569 +1125 +0.001 +3
Other Countries
Australia 7 119397 0 0
United Kingdom 47 26321 0 1
Top States for SILAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 427 5643 0.003 27
Illinois 375 4219 0.003 30
Alabama 315 2496 0.007 71
California 305 10340 0.001 9
Mississippi 301 1648 0.011 106
Top States for SILAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 301 1648 0.011 106
Alabama 315 2496 0.007 71
Louisiana 299 2432 0.007 67
Alaska 39 2786 0.006 62
Georgia 298 3579 0.004 36

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

Classification and Origin of SILAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Greece

Language of origin: Greek

Ethnic origin: Hellenic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SILAS 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SILAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SILAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 969 23.33
Native American/Alaskan 385 9.27
White (Hispanic) 136 3.27
Mixed Race 96 2.31
Asian/Pacific 51 1.23
Black/African American 2,516 60.58

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

Meaning of SILAS in historical publications

SILAS. The personal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SILAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SILAS.

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 SILAS

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