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".
Olivia (name) the United States in 2017. Since 2014, Olivia has been the most popular given name to baby girls in the UK for four consecutive years running. Olivia (name) Olivia is a feminine given name in the English language. It is derived from Latin "oliva" "olive". The name was first popularised by William Shakespeare's character in the "Twelfth Night", but in fact the name occurs in England as early as the thirteenth century. Olivia has been a popular name throughout the English-speaking world since the mid-1990s, and has been one of the most popular given names for baby girls in the