Silas Name Meaning, Origin, Celebrities, Graphic Designs

Name : Silas

Origin : Greek

The name meaning 🔗

Silas is a common given name and a lesser-known surname. It is a cognate of Silvanus.

The name comes from the early Christian disciple Silas. He is consistently called “Silas” in Acts, but the Latin Silvanus, which means “of the forest”, is always used by Paul and in the First Epistle of Peter; it is likely that “Silvanus” is the Romanized version of the original “Silas”, or that “Silas” is the Greek nickname for “Silvanus”. It has been suggested that Silas is the Greek version of the Aramaic “Seila”, a version of the Hebrew “Saul”. The Latin name “Silvanus” may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages.

Silas in other languages 🔗

• Danish – Silas
• Dutch – Silas
• English – Silas, Sylas, Si, Sy
• French – Sylvain
• Indonesian – Silas, Silvanus
• German – Silas, Silvan
• Italian – Silvano
• Arabic - سيلا

Popular people named Silas 🔗

• Silas
  a 1st-century leading figure among the early Christian community in Jerusalem
• Silas
  (Portuguese footballer) (born 1976), real name Jorge Fernandes
• Silas Tertius Rand Bill
  (1842–1890), Canadian politician
• Silas Chou
  (born 1946), Hong Kong billionaire
• Silas Farley
  American ballet dancer, choreographer and educator
• Silas Feitosa José De Souza
  (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
• Silas Deane
  (1738–1789), colonial American politician and diplomat
• Silas G. Harris
  (c. 1818–1851), American politician
• Silas M. Holmes
  (1816–1905), American politician
• Silas House
  (born 1971), American author
• Silas Melson
  (born 1996), American basketball player
• Silas Weir Mitchell
  (disambiguation), multiple people
• Silas Katompa Mvumpa
  (born 1998), DR Congolese footballer
• Silas Parsons
  (c. 1800–1860), justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
• Silas Wright Porter
  (1857–1937), American judge
• Silas Scarboro
  (1827–1907), American politician and physician from Maryland
• Silas Soule
  (1838–1865), American abolitionist
• Silas A. Wade
  (1797–1869), American politician
• Silas Williams
  (1888–1944), American college football player and coach
• Silas J. Williams
  (died 1908), American politician from Ohio
• Silas
  pen name of cartoonist Winsor McCay when working on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'

Graphic design for Silas 🔗

Silas name is written with clouds in the sky :