Silveira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Smyrna; Amsterdam; Denmark; Paris; Bayonne; Maranhão; Rio de Janeiro; Pitangui, Minas Gerais, Brasil; Santarém, Portugal; London; Ciudad de Mexico
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/silvejɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Silveira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 103(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 447
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #959 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103 (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Smyrna; Amsterdam; Denmark; Paris; Bayonne; Maranhão; Rio de Janeiro; Pitangui, Minas Gerais, Brasil; Santarém, Portugal; London; Ciudad de Mexico
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silveira 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.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Silveira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, bramble
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 da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeirab. 1763PTPortuguese general and noble
- Luis Maidanab. 1934UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Regina Silveirab. 1939BRuniversity professor and researcher active in Brazil (born 1939)
- Licínio Azevedob. 1951BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian journalist, writer, screenwriter, director and filmmaker
- Pablo da Silveirab. 1962UYUruguayan writer, lecturer and politician
- Eber Moasb. 1969UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Leonor Silveirab. 1970PTPortuguese actress
- Marcosb. 1973BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Lyanco Vojnovicb. 1997BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Miguel Silveirab. 2003BRBrazilian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 666K | #71 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6.4K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Silveira?
- A machine transcription gives /silvejɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Silveira mean?
- Recorded meaning: Smyrna; Amsterdam; Denmark; Paris; Bayonne; Maranhão; Rio de Janeiro; Pitangui, Minas Gerais, Brasil; Santarém, Portugal; London; Ciudad de Mexico
- In which country does Silveira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 474 thousand people named Silveira in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silveira.
- Where is Silveira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Silveira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 103 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Silveira?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 32,871 people named Silveira, about 1 in 103 residents.
- How common is Silveira compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Silveira is the 67th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silveiraThe 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, “Silveira” — the 67th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.