Silvestro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Sylvester (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/silβestɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Silvestro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 69K
- UYUruguay1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Silvestro
- Spanish:/silβestɾo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/silvɛstro/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/silbeʃtɾu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Sylvester
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Silvestro is found
(measured from records)Silvestro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 11 | Silvestro | 46 |
| US United States | 1,147 | 1 in 290K | 1.2K | Silvestro | 223 |
| AR Argentina | 659 | 1 in 69K | 659 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 655 | 1 in 323K | 655 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 23 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 96K | 1 | Silvestro | 69 |
| UY Uruguay | 39 | 1 in 87K | 39 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Silvestro | 1 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Silvestro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal latino silvester, «selvatico, del bosco».
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Dal latino silva; nome di san Silvestro, papa del 31 dicembre.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Etimologia come il precedente. S. Silvestro, papa, 31 dicembre. Nella formazione di cognomi subisce an~li~euso il mutamento i = e = a. Cogn. Silvestri, Salveatri, Silvestrelli, Vestri, Vi:stnni.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, var. arcaica de Silvestre
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Che proviene dalla selva
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Chris Silvestrob. 1979GBScottish footballer (born 1979)
- Gennaro Silvestrob. 1981ITItalian actor
- Alex Silvestrob. 1988USAmerican football player
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Silvestro mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Sylvester Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Silvestro?
- In the etymology graph, Sylvestre, Sly and Vester are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Silvestro?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /silβestɾo/; in Italian /silvɛstro/; in Portuguese /silbeʃtɾu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Silvestro?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Silvestro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silvestro. After it come United States, Argentina, Brazil and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Silvestro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,147 people named Silvestro in 2010, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Silvestro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silvestroThe 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, “Silvestro” — ranked 817th in Italy (ISTAT). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.