Are tavares and silva the same name?

Question

i was looking at the genealogy of the silva name and theres one that has the two names together

Answer 1

www.ancestry.com

Tavares Name Meaning and History

Portuguese: habitational name from any of at least seven minor places so called.

Tavares: variant of Tabares

Silva Name Meaning and History

Portuguese, Galician, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of the many places called Silva, or a topographic name from "silva" ‘"thicket’, ‘bramble"’

www.behindthename.com

. Silva  

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish

From Spanish/Portuguese "silva"-- "forest".

Rankings for SILVA:

United States ranked 254 out of 88,799 surnames ( 0.042%)

Argentina ranked 31 out of 100 most popular surnames

(Basically, then, Silva as a surname could refer to someone who lived near a thicket or bramble bush.)

http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/su...

In general, a person born into a Spanish-speaking family is given a first name followed by two surnames, the first being the father's family name (or, more precisely, the surname he gained from his father) followed by the mother's family name (or, again more precisely, the surname she gained from her father). So, if the name you found has both Silva and Tavares, this is probably the case--one is the father's surname and the other is the mother's surname from her father.