Silvester

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Gender Masculine
Usage Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, German, English, Late Roman
Scripts Силвестер(Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. zil-VEHS-tu(German) sil-VEHS-tər(English)

Meaning & History

From a Latin name meaning "wooded, wild", derived from silva "wood, forest". This was the name of three popes, including Saint Silvester I who supposedly baptized the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine the Great. As an English name, Silvester (or Sylvester) has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it became less common after the Protestant Reformation.