Silos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Silos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 125K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 247K
- NLNetherlands1 in 402K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
723 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silos 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 | 723 | 1 in 460K | 802 | Silos | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 513 | 1 in 413K | 513 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 399 | 1 in 125K | 399 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 184 | 1 in 247K | 184 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 43 | 1 in 402K | 43 | — | 2 |
723 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Silos is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, silo (vertical building for storing grain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite plural of silo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, locative plural of sils
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, plural of silu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco de Silosb. 1501ESSpanish composer (1555-1636)
- Giuseppe Silosb. 1601ITItalian Theatine (1601-1674)
- Manuel Silosb. 1906PHFilipino filmmaker
- Blanca de Silosb. 1914ESSpanish actress
- Chris Silosb. 1969NLDutch presenter / journalist
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 802 | #31,009 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 723 | #31,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 552 | #37,835 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 513 | #16,725 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 399 | #9,561 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 399 | #9,550 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 184 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 43 | #33,870 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Silos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 723 people named Silos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silos.
- Where is Silos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Silos is densest in Spain — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Silos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Silos in 2010, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Silos?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silosThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Silos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.