Silas Forename
4,897th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 213,614 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Solomon Islands
Silas Forename Definition:
A male name. apparently a shortened form of Latin Silvanus, the name of the grand-daughterof trees. The person called Silvanus by St Paul in 2 Cor. i. 19 is usually identified with the Silas of Acts. Neither name is found in use in England before the Reformation.
Read More About This ForenameSilas Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 36,989 | 1:5,792 | 762 |
| Kenya | 100% | 36,425 | 1:1,271 | 251 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 36,399 | 1:4,878 | 804 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 14,261 | 1:797 | 182 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 12,935 | 1:4,081 | 700 |
| United States | 100% | 9,107 | 1:39,809 | 2,434 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 8,931 | 1:1,727 | 313 |
| Uganda | 99% | 6,206 | 1:6,600 | 763 |
| Ghana | 100% | 6,180 | 1:4,367 | 569 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 6,081 | 1:3,554 | 623 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 5,885 | 1:43,834 | 5,668 |
| South Africa | 99% | 5,384 | 1:10,129 | 1,726 |
| India | 100% | 4,427 | 1:274,425 | 26,174 |
| Angola | 100% | 4,184 | 1:6,445 | 896 |
| Namibia | - | 3,933 | 1:611 | 118 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 3,129 | 1:23,595 | 1,865 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 2,261 | 1:3,606 | 398 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 1,818 | 1:320 | 59 |
| Zambia | - | 1,084 | 1:14,626 | 1,415 |
| Chad | 100% | 556 | 1:24,458 | 3,046 |
| Denmark | - | 440 | 1:12,840 | 956 |
| England | 100% | 425 | 1:130,830 | 4,520 |
| Peru | 74% | 420 | 1:75,694 | 3,096 |
| Philippines | 94% | 331 | 1:320,270 | 12,290 |
| Togo | - | 330 | 1:21,937 | 3,753 |
| Canada | 100% | 317 | 1:104,522 | 5,229 |
| Mexico | 88% | 308 | 1:403,066 | 5,040 |
| Guatemala | 92% | 304 | 1:52,988 | 1,729 |
| Honduras | 100% | 295 | 1:29,890 | 1,772 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 224 | 1:82,051 | 4,799 |
| El Salvador | - | 222 | 1:28,567 | 1,241 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Malawi | 100% | 212 | 1:80,718 | 4,695 |
| Benin | 100% | 181 | 1:58,430 | 4,345 |
| Botswana | 100% | 179 | 1:12,204 | 1,655 |
| Australia | - | 172 | 1:79,405 | 3,172 |
| Congo | 100% | 168 | 1:29,817 | 2,690 |
| Germany | 100% | 153 | 1:631,882 | 6,035 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 140 | 1:120,729 | 5,735 |
| Thailand | 100% | 127 | 1:551,699 | 25,372 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Jamaica | - | 108 | 1:26,697 | 1,943 |
| Vanuatu | - | 106 | 1:2,470 | 570 |
| Portugal | - | 101 | 1:103,078 | 2,758 |
| Malaysia | 87% | 81 | 1:375,925 | 17,881 |
| Liberia | 100% | 80 | 1:55,151 | 2,841 |
| Haiti | 100% | 76 | 1:141,144 | 7,093 |
| Nepal | 93% | 68 | 1:418,932 | 13,178 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 65 | 1:126,361 | 3,605 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 60 | 1:34,000 | 3,835 |
| Cape Verde | - | 56 | 1:9,449 | 1,006 |
| Chile | 89% | 50 | 1:352,144 | 4,999 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 50 | 1:604,038 | 15,223 |
| Sudan | - | 49 | 1:771,571 | 2,562 |
| Guyana | 100% | 48 | 1:15,901 | 2,114 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 47 | 1:1,045 | 238 |
| Colombia | 100% | 46 | 1:1,038,672 | 11,651 |
| Sweden | 76% | 43 | 1:229,254 | 7,631 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 42 | 1:170,286 | 11,537 |
| Belgium | 100% | 41 | 1:280,245 | 5,847 |
| China | - | 40 | 1:34,151,395 | 61,321 |
| France | 100% | 39 | 1:1,704,368 | 10,676 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| New Zealand | - | 38 | 1:119,370 | 4,813 |
| Spain | 100% | 38 | 1:1,224,473 | 9,456 |
| Burundi | 100% | 36 | 1:275,182 | 656 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 36 | 1:2,710,004 | 9,023 |
| Hong Kong | - | 36 | 1:215,353 | 3,327 |
| Paraguay | 86% | 35 | 1:206,766 | 3,303 |
| Singapore | 100% | 34 | 1:184,913 | 8,359 |
| Cambodia | 85% | 33 | 1:493,131 | 10,612 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 31 | 1:336,493 | 11,264 |
| Greece | 100% | 30 | 1:364,485 | 5,634 |
| Israel | 100% | 27 | 1:311,219 | 7,762 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 26 | 1:887,536 | 27,283 |
| Pakistan | 99% | 25 | 1:7,774,307 | 62,662 |
| Argentina | 74% | 24 | 1:1,782,218 | 7,077 |
| Saint Lucia | 95% | 23 | 1:7,731 | 1,158 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 23 | 1:59,192 | 4,998 |
| Wales | 100% | 22 | 1:140,650 | 2,959 |
| Greenland | - | 20 | 1:2,819 | 456 |
| Norway | 100% | 19 | 1:270,123 | 6,107 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 17 | 1:201,626 | 3,724 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 14 | 1:757,243 | 3,090 |
| Ireland | 100% | 13 | 1:357,194 | 5,120 |
| Costa Rica | 92% | 13 | 1:366,765 | 6,353 |
| Ecuador | - | 13 | 1:1,363,609 | 9,250 |
| Nicaragua | 75% | 12 | 1:501,528 | 8,668 |
| Scotland | 100% | 12 | 1:445,864 | 5,809 |
| Nauru | 100% | 11 | 1:1,084 | 171 |
| Russia | 100% | 11 | 1:13,112,155 | 45,377 |
| Belize | 100% | 10 | 1:35,431 | 3,151 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Italy | 100% | 7 | 1:8,723,156 | 29,138 |
| Estonia | - | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Panama | - | 5 | 1:781,311 | 18,191 |
| Qatar | 100% | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Turkey | 100% | 5 | 1:15,560,342 | 40,635 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Japan | - | 4 | 1:31,996,514 | 55,536 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 4 | 1:27,895 | 3,010 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 4 | 1:2,887,755 | 1,822 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Finland | 67% | 3 | 1:1,827,728 | 14,078 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3 | 1:1,183,434 | 5,646 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 2 | 1:95,998 | 3,765 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Austria | 100% | 1 | 1:8,514,201 | 19,377 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| South Korea | - | 1 | 1:5,544,421 | 37,250 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
The alternate forms: Sílas (3) & Silás (1) are calculated separately.
Silas (101,919) may also be a surname.
Silas Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. apparently a shortened form of Latin Silvanus, the name of the grand-daughterof trees. The person called Silvanus by St Paul in 2 Cor. i. 19 is usually identified with the Silas of Acts. Neither name is found in use in England before the Reformation. Silas became fairly common in the 17th C, and continued to be used in Dissenting circles in the 18th and 19th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
‘[Sylvanus] had become a Roman name just before the Christian era, and belonged to the companion of St. Paul... Sylvanus in the Epistles, and, by the contraction, Silas in the Acts... Silas has been revived in England,’ Yonge; and George Eliot may have further revived it by her novel, Silas Marner, 1861.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A name corrupted down from Silvanus.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Sy'-las, considering, marking. He accompanied St. Paul in visiting the churches of Syria and Cilicia. Acts xv. 22.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: a contraction of Sylvanus.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Latin name, meaning: Of the forest.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Silas Forename Popularity
Silas Demographics
Silas Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 1,638 (2014)
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Phonetically Similar Names
Silas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Silas in the Russian language | ||
| Силас | silas | - |
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