Silas (name) The Latin name "Silvanus" may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages. 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
Abo (name) U.S. Census Abo is an uncommon first name but a fairly common last name for both men and women; ranking 53,205 out of 88,799. Abo (name) Abo is an Arabic and Hebrew male name and a variant form of Abbas. It is from "Abbas" that "Abo" takes its meaning of "stern" or "somber father". In Arabic, Abbas is a symbolic name referring to the lion, the king of beasts. The variant used in the Russian language as a Christian name is "" ("Abo"). It is possible that the Russian name was derived from the Biblical Hebrew word meaning "father", but