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i am portuguese and i can tell you that silva is the typical portuguese surname - the portuguese approach to "smith".
this surname is quite ancient and is also commonly used to describe a group of certain wild plants - wild blueberries, for example.

It should be Spanish, Italian or perhaps Portuguese.
The word comes from the latin word "silva" that means "wood" or
"forest". see also the word "selva". it is a locative surname.