Find out how popular the last name Slivka is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Slivka.

Slivka, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Slivka surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Slivka in America

Slivka is the 25535th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Slivka surname appeared 967 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Slivka.

We can also compare 2010 data for Slivka to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Slivka

The surname SLIVKA originates from the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe, particularly in countries like Slovakia, Ukraine, and Russia. It can be traced back to the Middle Ages, around the 13th or 14th century.

The name SLIVKA is derived from the Slavic word "sliva," which means "plum." It likely originated as a nickname or a descriptive name for someone who lived near a plum orchard, cultivated plums, or was associated with the fruit in some way.

In the 15th century, the name SLIVKA appeared in several historical records and manuscripts in the region. For instance, there are mentions of individuals with this surname in the Lviv City Archives, which date back to the mid-1400s.

One of the earliest recorded individuals with the surname SLIVKA was Ivan SLIVKA, a merchant and landowner from the city of Lviv (now in Ukraine), born around 1420. Another notable figure was Andrii SLIVKA, a Ukrainian Cossack leader who fought against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century.

In the 19th century, the SLIVKA surname was found in various places across Eastern Europe. For example, Vasyl SLIVKA (1853-1912) was a renowned Ukrainian writer and poet from the town of Buchach, now in western Ukraine.

Another notable individual was Mykola SLIVKA (1868-1945), a Ukrainian priest and historian who wrote extensively about the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The surname SLIVKA also spread to other Slavic countries, such as Slovakia. One of the most famous bearers of this name was Jozef SLIVKA (1879-1939), a Slovak politician and diplomat who served as the first ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

While the SLIVKA surname originated in Eastern Europe, it has since spread to other parts of the world due to immigration and diaspora communities. However, its roots can be traced back to the Slavic regions and the connection to the plum fruit, which likely gave rise to this descriptive surname centuries ago.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Slivka

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Slivka.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Slivka was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Slivka has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Slivka was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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