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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.