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Sylvanus

OriginLatin
Meaning"wood; forest"
GenderBoy
US Rank#848

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About Sylvanus

Variation of Silvain

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  • Sylvanus Thayer

    American general and "father of West Point"

  • Sylvanus Bowser

    American inventor

  • Sylvanus Morley (1883

    1948), US anthropologist and Mayanist scholar

  • Sylvanus Urban

    18th century London writer and printer whose real name was Edward Cave

Sylvanus in pop culture

  • Sylvanus Bluff

    character in "Hawbuck Grange" (1847) by R. S. Surtees

  • Sylvanus Heythorp

    shipowner in "A Stoic" (1918) by John Galsworthy

  • Sylvanus Stone

    eccentric old Professor of Natural Science writing crazy work called "Book of Brotherhood," living in his daughter (Mrs. Hilary Dalison)'s house, in "Fraternity" (1909) by John Galsworthy

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