Šilin

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Šilin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 18Kas Силин(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 52Kas Сілін
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 80Kas Силин

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šilin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,000 named Силин, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
148 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ŠilinLatin(measured from records)
СилинCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Силин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Сілін in UA Ukraine and Silin in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Šilin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Šilin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈8,000 est.≈1 in 18K—Силин148
UA Ukraine≈840 est.≈1 in 52K—Сілін22
BY Belarus≈370 est.≈1 in 26K—Силин16
KZ Kazakhstan≈240 est.≈1 in 80K471Силин33
TR Türkiye≈200 est.≈1 in 418K—Силин3
US United States1141 in 2.9M114Silin30
FI Finland881 in 63K88Силин1
EE Estonia≈21 est.≈1 in 58KlistedСилин3

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Šilin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Estonia, United States, Finland

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Silin, Sïlïn

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Silìn, Silin, Șilin, Si-Lin

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Silin

  • Bulgarian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Ukraine

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Силин, Шилин, Shilin, Silin, Šilìn

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Šilin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Силин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Šilin?
In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Šilin in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šilin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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