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Silas

OriginAramaic, Latin, Greek
Meaning"of the forest; or prayed for"
GenderBoy
US Rank#71

Top 1000

NB Rank#8

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Variation of Silvain

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Famous Silass

  • Silas Deane

    American politician and diplomat

  • Silas House

    American writer

  • Silas Weir Mitchell

    American physician and writer

  • Silas Weir Mitchell

    American actor (named after the above)

  • Silas "Si" Robertson

    American reality TV personality ("Duck Dynasty")

  • Jason Silas "Jase" Robertson

    American reality TV personality (Duck Dynasty")

  • Silas Wright

    American politician, 14th governor of New York

  • Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira aka Silas

    Brazilian football manager

  • Silas Wood

    U.S. Congressman from New York

  • Silas Talbot

    commander of the U.S.S. Constitution during the American Revolution

  • Silas Watt (b. 2007)

    son of racing driver Jason Watt

  • Silas Randall Timberlake (b. 2015)

    son of singer/actor Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel

  • Silas Jude Eubanks (b. 2015)

    son of Megan McConnell and Chase Eubanks of TV's "16 and Pregnant"

Silas in pop culture

  • Silas Blissett

    character in British soap "Hollyoaks"

  • Silas Botwin

    Nancy's son on TV's "Weeds"

  • "Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

    " novel by George Eliot

  • Silas Heap

    character in the "Septimus Heap" book series by Angie Sage

  • Silas

    character in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"

  • Silas

    character in "Sisters Red" by Jackson Pearce

  • Silas

    the first immortal being on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"

  • Silas Wegg

    one,legged blackmailer in "Our Mutual Friend"

  • Silas

    hired man in Robert Frost's poem "Death of the Hired Man"

  • Silas Ruthyn

    character in "Uncle Silas" by Sheridan Le Fanu

  • Great

    Uncle Silas, character in "My Uncle Silas" (1939) by H. E. Bates

  • Silas

    the vampire in Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book"

  • Silas Q. Scuddamore

    wealthy American in "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Colonel Silas Lapham

    businessman & social climber in "The Rise of Silas Lapham" (1885)

  • "Swan Lee (Silas Lang)"

    song by Syd Barrett

  • Silas Hendershot

    character in movie "The Final Storm"

  • Silas

    character in animated series "Transformers: Prime"

  • Silas Sugwash

    character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series

  • Silas Phelps

    uncle to Tom Sawyer in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain

  • Silas

    main character in "Origin" by Liam Holt

  • Silas

    character in the video games "Fire Emblem Fates"

  • Silas

    character in the movie "Equals"

  • Silas

    one of the villains in 'The Vampire Diaries'

  • Silas Scratch

    antagonist of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School," by Jeff Kinney

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