Silvan (name)
Silvan is a male given name and comes from the Latin word silvanus , which means "the one from the forest" in German. An origin from the Etrurian - Roman deity Silvanus is also conceivable.
The name Silvan has its name day on July 13th . The feminine form of the name “Silvan” should be called “ Silvia ” or “ Silvana ”.
The form "Silvan" (next to, for example, French Sylvain , Italian Silvano ) originally comes from Rhaeto-Romanic and came from v. a. in the canton of Graubünden . In recent decades, however, the use of this variant has also expanded to include German-speaking Switzerland .
Name bearer
- Silvan Aegerter (* 1980), Swiss football player
- Silvan Bolliger (* 1992), Swiss floorball player
- Silvan Büchli (* 1990), Swiss football player
- Silvan Dillier (* 1990), Swiss road and rail cyclist
- Silvan Hefti (* 1997), Swiss football player
- Silvan Hilfiker (* 1980), Swiss politician
- Silvan Kindle (* 1936), Liechtenstein ski racer
- Silvan-Pierre Leirich (* 1960), German actor
- Silvan Omerzu (* 1955), Slovenian director, puppeteer and illustrator
- Silvan Schalom (* 1958), Israeli politician
- Silvan S. Schweber (1928–2017), American physicist and historian of science
- Silvan Schwerzmann (1800–1866), Swiss politician and judge
- Silvan Sidler (* 1998), Swiss football player
- Silvan Thüler (1932–2011), Swiss football player
- Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991), American philosopher and psychologist
- Silvan Widmer (* 1993), Swiss football player
- Silvan Wyss (* 1993), Swiss ice hockey player
- Silvan Zingg (* 1973), Swiss pianist
- Silvan Zurbriggen (* 1981), Swiss ski racer
family name
- Rudolf Silvan (* 1967), Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of parliament
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