Silá

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Silá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Sīla.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 36K
  • ALAlbania1 in 61K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,015 people, 2022

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sila 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(measured from records)

From Latin Sīla.

Sources 5

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Silá 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 Silá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,0151 in 209K1.3K——
US United States7601 in 438K645Sila14
SE Sweden2821 in 36K282—1
DK Denmark2261 in 26K223——
ES Spain2051 in 244K205—2
AL Albania501 in 61K50——
FI Finland281 in 199K66—2

1,015 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)

Silá is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nv, it lies somewhere, is located somewhere (a slender flexible object as a rope, a chain, a belt)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, they

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Silá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Silá mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Sīla. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 3 other sources.
In which country does Silá have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Silá, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Silá most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Silá is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Silá?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,015 people named Silá in 2022, about 1 in 209 thousand 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, “Silá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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