Silas
Silas is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Silas is a male given name that was taken from the Bible. Silas was a confidante and companion of the apostle Paul . The Catholic name day is celebrated on July 13th .
The origin of the name Silas is not completely clear; therefore the common assumption that it is a Greek name is not proven. It is assumed that the name Silas is a Graecized form of an Aramaic variant of the Hebrew name Saul (meaning: "the [God] requested") or the Greek short form of the Latin name Silvan , or Silvanus (meaning: Silvanus is the ancient Roman god of the forest, the field and the herds; "silva" = Latin forest ).
The name is particularly widespread in the British and Anglo-American regions. The Lutheran memorial days for the namesake in America are January 26th ( ELCA ) and February 10th ( LCMS ).
Name bearer
First name
- Silas or Silvanus , confidante and companion of the Apostle Paul in the Bible
- Silas Atopare (* 1951), Governor General of Papua New Guinea (1997-2003)
- Silas Breiding (* 1992), German actor
- Silas Carson (born 1965), British actor
- Silas Deane (1737–1789), member of the American Continental Congress , first US ambassador
- Silas Kiplagat (* 1989), Kenyan middle distance runner
- Silas Lienert (* 1992), Swiss floorball player
- Silas Weir Mitchell (Physician) (1829–1914), American physician and neurologist
- Silas Weir Mitchell (actor) (born 1969), American actor
- Silas Nacita (* 1993), American football player
- Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor (* 1970), Liberian environmentalist and human rights activist
- Silas Wamangituka (* 1999), Congolese soccer player
- Silas Woodson (1819-1896), American politician
- Silas Wright Jr. (1795–1847), American politician
Intermediate name
- Earl Silas Tupper (1907–1983), American inventor and founder of the Tupperware group named after him
fiction
- Silas , hero of the children's books by Cecil Bødker , see Silas (TV series)
- Silas , antagonist in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 horror novel Uncle Silas
- Silas , antagonist in Dan Brown published novel in 2003 Da Vinci Code (AKA The Da Vinci Code )
- Silas , one of the main characters in So High
- Silas , antagonist in the Vampire Diaries
- Silas Botwin, one of the protagonists in the American series Weeds
- Silas Marner is the protagonist in the novel of the same name by George Eliot
- Silas Toronthal, antagonist of the novel Mathias Sandorf by Jules Verne
family name
- Edouard Silas (1827–1909), Dutch composer and organist
- James Silas (born 1949), American basketball player
- Paulo Silas (* 1965), Brazilian soccer player
- Xavier Silas (* 1988), American basketball player
stage name
- Silas (soccer player) (actually Jorge Manuel Rebelo Fernandes ; * 1976), Portuguese soccer player and coach
swell
- Duden - Lexicon of first names; P. 325, p. 333, p. 334; Bibliographical Institute & FA: Brockhaus AG, Mannheim 2007; ISBN 9783411049455
- Silas on baby-vornamen.de