Sylvestre is used as a family name or surname in Haiti. It is 9 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Sylvestre
No. of characters: 9
Origin: Haiti
Meaning: Silvestre for the senses. The name is carried in the Drôme and in the Alps (many compound nouns in Savoy), it is also very present in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Corsican Italianised forms or rare: Sylvestri Silvestro. Latinized form or German: Sylvester.

How popular is Sylvestre?

Sylvestre is common in Haiti.

Sylvestre is ranked 11015 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Sylvestres grew by 38.74477 per cent to 1658 since 2000 and ranked 17111 after elevating 3488 spots. The last name was found in around 6 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Black 45.66 33.22
White 44.63 53.89
Hispanic or Latino 6.76 6.03
Others 2.23 5.27
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.42 0
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3 0
Sylvestre is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Haiti which signifies that it is originated from Haiti. Around 48755 people have been found who wears Sylvestre as their family name. Sylvestre is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,892 Senegal9
9,206 Trinidad and Tobago8
475 Turks and Caicos Islands6
1,078 Togo5
720,003 Russia4
27,602 Nigeria4
2,672 Mozambique3
15,956 Venezuela3
4,529 Mauritius3
110 Central African Republic3
20,595 China2
1,143 French Polynesia2
6,266 Luxembourg2
54,135 Philippines2
1,169 New Caledonia2
1,235 Belize2
1,136 Mali2
40,256 Mexico2
19,046 Ireland2
1,848 Madagascar2
332 Chad2
26,532 Chile2
62,864 New Zealand1
14,618 Guyana1
15,162 Costa Rica1
810,193 Indonesia1
2,037 Cayman Islands1
799 British Virgin Islands1
2,190 Barbados1
10,190 Bahrain1
6,820 Angola1
1,542 Andorra1
1,704,541 India1
28,746 Algeria1
5,553 Taiwan1
7,790 Zambia1
7,292 Vietnam1
2,196 Liberia1
49,529 Israel1
17,575 Kuwait1
38,830 Morocco1
9,498 Iceland1
17,236 Ghana1
16,640 Hong Kong1
38,841 Scotland1
25,746 Finland1
25,721 Egypt1
7,340 Democratic Republic of The Congo1
14,644 Tunisia1
13,447 Uganda1
492,292 Ukraine1
83,428 United Arab Emirates1
2,877 Cuba1
12,270 Lebanon1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
587 Saint Lucia50
95,259 Italy45
6,540 Burkina Faso44
56,148 Spain32
845 The Bahamas28
57,220 Netherlands27
71,059 Australia24
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
56,973 South Africa73
51,036 Tanzania61
29,438 Belgium52
Countries with hundreds of Sylvestre:
1,819 Benin937
409 Gabon483
31,047 Germany336
13,426 Kenya314
19,920 Argentina269
2,593 Dominican Republic216
29,416 England156
9,988 Switzerland117
Countries with thousands of Sylvestre:
232 Rwanda7,367
200 Burundi6,197
1,151 France5,474
533 Ivory Coast4,676
1,264 Canada4,043
1,911 Cameroon1,883
7,942 Brazil1,749
20,254 United States1,584
Countries with ten thousands of Sylvestre:
93 Haiti12,414
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Francois Sylvestre was 29 years old when he migrated to New York on December 18, 1879. He lived in Italy where he worked as waiter and took Amerique from Havre.

Comments

M
Marguerite Halle
sylvestre is a Christian name and surname, represents the Latin name silvester, Latin nickname derived from silva forest, designating the inhabitants of the forest this name was popularized by a pope fourth century.

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