SILAS  

Gender: M
Origin: Greek from Latin
Meaning: "to borrow"

Popularity in 2008: #313

Once a folksy-sounding, rural New Testament name associated with George Eliot's Silas Marner, it's beginning to be reevaluated, à la similar flavored Caleb and Linus. Also associated with the indelible albino monk in The Da Vinci Code.

Variations:
Sylas, Silo, Silus, Cylas, Cylas, Silo, Silus, Sylas

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• Starting the name list...
• what if you had 20 kids?
• Please help me!
• Drop two, add one (boys)
• Favorites naming game for boys

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• VAMPIRE BABY NAMES
• NAMES of the FUTURE
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• NAMES FROM NANCY DREW & OTHER STORYBOOK SERIES