Spelling Variants
(alphabetically)
| Cilfies | Silfoose | Silvens | Sylfuse |
| Selfeese | Silfooz | Silves | Sylves |
| Selfies | Silfos | Silveus | Sylvias |
| Selfiest | Silfouse | Silvieus | Sylvies |
| Selfoos | Silfues | Silvins | Sylvious |
| Selfoose | Silfuis | Silvious | Sylvis |
| Selfus | Silfus | Silvis | Sylvius (Silvius in Germany) |
| Selfuse | Silfuse | Silvius | Sylvus |
| Selvius | Silfuss | Silvous | Zilfis |
| Silfees | Silicus | Silvus | |
| Silfese | Silvas | Silvuse | |
| Silfies | Silvees | Syeephus | |
| Silfis | Silveis | Syefuse | |
| Silfius | Silveius | Sylfis | |
| Silfoos | Silvenis | Sylfoose |
Quite a few of the above spellings are in use today by different branches of this extended family. Others probably reflect errors made by census takers, or in transcribing old records, which are often difficult to read. Thus, it is likely that quite a few of these spelling variations of our surname are simply mistakes and were never actually used by anyone to write their name, assuming that they were indeed literate! Edia Monroe Silvis
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