Silvani
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Silvani is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: do nome lat. Silvanus; também pode indicar habitante de Silvano.
- BRBrazil1 in 21K◐
- PTPortugal1 in 350K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈10K ●
- Sources
- 102 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 3 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
do nome lat. Silvanus; também pode indicar habitante de Silvano
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,015 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 21K | 11K | Silvani | 74 |
| AR Argentina | 255 | 2.5K rec. | — | 422 | Silvani | 37 |
| US United States | 190 | 2.2K rec. | — | 298 | Silvani | 102 |
| PY Paraguay | 40 | 34 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | 35 | 38 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 5 |
| PE Peru | 31 | 36 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | 26 | 109 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 31 |
| PT Portugal | 24 | 14 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 7 |
| IT Italy | 22 | 216 rec. | — | listed | Silvani | 31 |
| MX Mexico | 22 | 37 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 13 |
| PH Philippines | 18 | 15 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 4 |
| DE Germany | 11 | 49 rec. | — | — | Silvani | 26 |
Roughly 10K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 21K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese151K93%
- English10K6%
- Indonesian4911%
- Spanish4071%
- French441%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 150,670 | 93% |
| English | 10,142 | 6% |
| Indonesian | 491 | 1% |
| Spanish | 407 | 1% |
| French | 44 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Silvani 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 Italian, masculine plural of silvano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of silvānus:
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 22 |
| 1901 | 40 |
| 1911 | 17 |
| 1921 | 22 |
| 1931 | 25 |
| 1941 | 29 |
| 1951 | 28 |
| 1961 | 31 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1991 | 20 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gherardo Silvanib. 1579FRItalian architect and sculptor (1579-1675)
- Francesco Silvanib. 1660ITItalian librettist and writer
- Gaetano Silvanib. 1798Italian printmaker (1798-1879)
- Maurilio Silvanib. 1882ITItalian priest (1882-1947)
- Aldo Silvanib. 1891ITItalian actor, voice actor and director (1891-1964)
- Al Silvanib. 1910USAmerican boxing trainer & actor (1910-1996)
- Paul Silvanib. 1928FRFrench journalist, writer and historian (1928-2013)
- Alberto Silvanib. 1951ITItalian technologist (born 1951)
- Walter Silvanib. 1971ARArgentine footballer
- Xavier SilvaniFRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0387-1667
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●
Attested in 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 11K | #2,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 9.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 9.4K | #962 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 8.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.7K | #1,712 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 6.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.9K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Silvani?
- We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Silvani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Silvani have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Silvani in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled silvani.
- Where is Silvani most common?
- Silvani is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Silvani a male or female name?
- Silvani is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Silvani mean?
- Recorded meaning: do nome lat. Silvanus; também pode indicar habitante de Silvano
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Silvani”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.