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The SYLVAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 492 41657 0 2
United States (1880 census) 43 53582 0 1
Change since 1880 +449 +11925 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 7 116540 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SYLVAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 68 23356 0.000 4
Louisiana 53 7866 0.001 12
California 41 44976 0.000 1
Florida 37 35693 0.000 2
Illinois 35 32276 0.000 3
Top States for SYLVAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 53 7866 0.001 12
Nebraska 10 20427 0.001 6
Connecticut 17 24327 0.000 5
Oklahoma 14 18667 0.000 4
Missouri 21 24349 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 SYLVAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SYLVAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SYLVAN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SYLVAN by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SYLVAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SYLVAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of SYLVAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 256 52.03
Black/African American 201 40.85
White (Hispanic) 16 3.25
Mixed Race 12 2.44
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 SYLVAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SYLVAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SYLVAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to SYLVAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SYLVAN.

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 SYLVAN

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