"Form of Silas"
The name Sylas is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Sylas is a respelling of Silas, the name of a companion of Paul in the New Testament. Silas is the Greek form used in the Acts of the Apostles, and the same companion is named elsewhere in the New Testament as Silvanus, a Latin name built on silva, meaning wood or forest. The Sylas spelling begins appearing in United States birth records in 1975.
Silas means "Wood, from the forest.".
The pronunciation of Sylas is SY-luhs.
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