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The SILMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 521 39678 0 2
United States (1880 census) 149 23829 0 3
Change since 1880 +372 -15849 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 72 18871 0 4
United Kingdom 312 12416 0.001 7
Top States for SILMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 64 20502 0.000 3
Missouri 58 10907 0.001 10
West Virginia 42 4090 0.002 23
California 34 56195 0.000 1
North Carolina 30 15580 0.000 4
Top States for SILMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 42 4090 0.002 23
Missouri 58 10907 0.001 10
Vermont 4 18192 0.001 7
Louisiana 20 16678 0.000 4
Oklahoma 13 20850 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of SILMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SILMAN 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 SILMAN 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 SILMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 468 89.83
Black/African American 17 3.26
White (Hispanic) 16 3.07
Mixed Race 13 2.5
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SILMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to SILMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SILMAN.

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 SILMAN

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