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
Brandon (given name) "Brandon" as a variant form of the Irish given name "Brendan" is an Anglicised form of the Old Irish name, "Bréanainn", which is in turn derived from the earlier Old Irish "Brénainn". The mediaeval Latin form of the name, Brendanus, has influenced its spelling in the modern English and Irish forms. However, the name has no meaning in the Irish language, and was absorbed from the Old Welsh "breenhin", meaning Prince or Chieftain. In the instance of the Welsh "Bran" as the origin, meaning "crow", there is also a general Celtic nebula of related words and names across the European