New Year's Eve (first name)
New Year's Eve is a male given name . Another spelling of the name is Sylvester .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name comes from the Latin word silvestris - coming from the forest or living in the forest and thus means forest dweller; derived from silva , the Latin word for forest .
name day
- December 31 , see also: New Year's Eve
variants
- New Year's Eve
- Silwestr ( Сильвестр , Russian; scientific transliteration Sil'vestr )
- Silvestre (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Silvestro (Italian, Esperanto)
- Sylwester (Polish)
- Szilveszter (Hungarian)
Name bearer
Popes, clergy
- Silvester I , from 314 to 335 first Roman Pope after the Constantinian Revolution
- Silvester II. (Gerbert von Aurillac, approx. 950–1003), Pope from 99 to 1003
- New Years Eve III. (Johannes Crescentius, † 1063), officiated as Pope in 1045
- New Year IV. , Antipope (1105–1111)
- Silvester , Bishop of Chalon († around 530)
- Silvester († 1218), Bishop of Worcester
- New Year's Eve (Protopope) (16th century), confessor and counselor to Ivan the Terrible
- Silvester Guzzolini (13th century), Italian saint, founder of the New Year's order
First name
Shape New Years Eve
- Silvester of Everdon († 1254), English clergyman and Bishop of Carlisle
- Silvester Mazzolini (1456–1523), Italian Dominican and theologian, called Prierias
- Silvester Pflieger († October 21, 1453), from 1438 to 1453 Bishop of Chiemsee
- Silvester von Schaumberg (* between 1466 and 1471; † June 29, 1534), imperial knight and bailiff, formerly a supporter of Martin Luther
- Silvester Stodewescher († July 12, 1479), Archbishop of Riga from 1448 until his death in 1479
Form Silvestre
- Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940), Mexican composer, violinist and conductor
- Silvestre Varela (* 1985), Portuguese football player
- Silvestre Vélez de Escalante (1750–1780), Spanish Franciscan
Form Silvestro
- Silvestro Carlone (1610–1671), Italian master mason and city architect
- Silvestro Ganassi (* 1492; † unknown), Italian viola da gamba and recorder player
- Silvestro Gherardi (1802–1879), Italian physicist and mathematician
- Silvestro Lega (1826–1895), Italian painter of realism
- Silvestro Palma (1754–1834), Italian opera composer
- Silvestro Prestifilippo (1921–1975), Italian journalist, author and film director
- Silvestro Valier (1630–1700), 109th Doge of Venice from 1694 to 1700
Form New Years Eve
- Sylvester Birngruber (1914–2006), Austrian monk of the Cistercian order, religious educator, and persecuted by National Socialism
- Sylvester Cotton , American singer, guitarist and songwriter of the country blues
- Sylvester Engbrox (* 1964), German contemporary painter
- Sylvester Groth (* 1958), German actor and voice actor
- Sylvester Heereman (* 1974), German religious
- Sylvester James (1947–1988), American soul and disco singer, band leader, songwriter and producer
- Sylvester Jordan (1792–1861), German lawyer and liberal politician
- Sylvester Kincheon (born 1964), American basketball player
- Sylvester Levay (* 1945), Hungarian composer
- Sylvester McCoy (born 1943), Scottish actor
- Sylvester Reisacher (1862–1916), German history, portrait and landscape painter
- Sylvester Stadler (1910–1995), Austrian SS commander
- Sylvester Stallone (* 1946), American actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Sylvester Tegetmeier († 1552), north German theologian and reformer of Livonia
- Sylvester Williams (born 1988), American football player
as an intermediate name
- middle name of Michael Opoczynski (* 1948), German television journalist
- tenth first name of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (* 1971), German politician (CSU)
- Robert Sylvester Kelly (* 1967), American soul singer
Form Sylwester
- Sylwester Bednarek (* 1989), Polish high jumper
- Sylwester Janiszewski (* 1988), Polish road cyclist
- Sylwester Kulig (* 1981), Polish biathlete
- Sylwester Szmyd (* 1978), Polish cyclist