Zilberman Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

The same name, two spellings: Zilberman and Silberman. Read literally, Zilberman points to “Someone who made and sold silver articles, a silversmith”.

• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Zilberman writes “z” in place of the “s” found in Silberman, a common scribal difference.
• The same family of names includes Silbermann.
• The 2010 US Census counted 256 people named Zilberman, ranking it number 75,317 among American surnames. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Zilberman family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. For the full story, order the Zilberman surname pack.