Silas (name) Silas (name) Silas is a common given name and a lesser-known surname. It is a cognate of Silvanus. Silas as a name today 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".
Prosser (name) state. Using data based on 142 Prosser immigrants to New York, the vast majority departed from Great Britain, while 11 are from Ireland and 21 from Germany. An Ancestry.com chart also exists for average life expectancy for people with the name Prosser since 1950. Prosser (name) Prosser is an English-language surname, derived from a Welsh-language patronym. The English-language surname "Prosser" is considered to be a Welsh surname. The name originated as an Anglicisation of the Welsh-language "ap Rhosier", or "ap Rosser", both meaning "son of Roger". The English-language personal name "Roger" is derived from the Old French personal name "Roger",