Galician and Spanish: habitational name from any of the places
named Silvestre in Pontevedra and Badajoz.Catalan,
Occitan, French, and Spanish: from the personal name Silvestre
(see Sylvester).Spanish and Portuguese: byname from
silvestre ‘wild’, ‘rustic’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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