Silliman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Silliman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 205K(measured from records)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.9Mas Силлиман
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 Silliman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
1,623 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Силлиман in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silliman 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,623 | 1 in 205K | 1.7K | Silliman | 5 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Силлиман | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Silliman | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | — | — |
1,623 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gold Selleck Sillimanb. 1732USAmerican general
- Mary Sillimanb. 1736USAmerican matriarch (1736-1818)
- Gold Selleck Sillimanb. 17771777-1868
- Benjamin Sillimanb. 1779USearly American chemist and science educator (1779–1864)
- Benjamin Silliman Jr.b. 1816USprofessor of chemistry, Yale University (1816–1885)
- James W. Sillimanb. 1905USAmerican politician (1905–1976)
- Mariana du Pont Sillimanb. 1911(1911-1992)
- Mike Sillimanb. 1944USbasketball player (1944-2000)
- Ron Sillimanb. 1946USAmerican poet
- Elaine R. Sillimanacademic
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,505 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Silliman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Silliman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silliman.
- Where is Silliman most common?
- Silliman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Silliman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,623 people named Silliman in 2010, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sillimanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Silliman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.