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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Portuguese, and southern Italian : from the medieval personal name (Latin Silverius, a derivative of silva ‘wood’), borne in honor of a 6th-century pope, who met a premature end as the result of the enmity of the Empress Theodora, but was subsequently revered as a saint.

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