"Silva" may refer to:
Silva, the most common surname in Portugal Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic is located in southwestern Europe [i] on the Iberian Peninsula [i] ... 

 and Brazil Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest and most populous country [i] ... 

, and common in other places it is predominantly a Portuguese Portuguese language

Portuguese is an Iberian Romance language [i], of the Indo-European family [i] ... 

 surname . The word came originally from the Latin Latin

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language [i] originally spoken in Latium [i], ... 

, meaning woods and, by extension, people that came from forest Forest

A forest is an area with a high density of tree [i]s . ... 

ed areas.