Śil

surname · Latin script

Śil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: filtre ; store; filtrant.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 166K(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 1.2M
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M

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.

India (measured from records)

1,140 people

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 166K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sil in IN India, 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)

filtre ; store; filtrant

Sources 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Śil 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 Śil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,1401 in 1.2M1.1KSil8
PL Poland2311 in 166K117——
US United States2261 in 1.5M359Sil16
AR Argentina301 in 1.5M30——
ES Spain201 in 2.5M20—4
NL Netherlands81 in 2.2M3K—7

1,140 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Śil 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 Śil mean, and where does it come from?
filtre ; store; filtrant Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Śil have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Śil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sil.
Where is Śil most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Śil is densest in Poland — about 1 in 166 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Śil?
In India, the national register counted 1,140 people named Śil, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Bil

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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, “Śil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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