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".
Joshua (name) among the top-five given names for newborn males. In Scotland, the popularity of "Joshua" has been substantially lower than in the rest of the United Kingdom, appearing at rank 35 in 2000 and rising to rank 22 in 2006. Joshua (name) Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew "Yehoshua" (). The name was a common alternative form of the name – yēšūă which corresponds to the Greek spelling Ἰησοῦς ("Iesous"), from which, through the Latin "Iesus", comes the English spelling Jesus. As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th