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".
Susana (given name) its use in English, the spelling "Susana" is also common in countries such as Spain and Portugal. Susana (given name) Susana is a feminine given name. Like its variants, which include the names Susanna and Susan, it is derived from Σουσάννα, "Sousanna", the Greek form of the Hebrew שושנה, "Shoshannah", which could have been derived from the Aramaic language. ܫܘܫܢ, "Shoshan" means "lily" in Syriac. سوسن, "Susan", is the Persian spelling of this name. The spelling "Susanna" is used in Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and Finland, as well as much of the English-speaking world. "Zuzana" is used in Czech Republic