Silas Family Crest and Last Name Background

The Silas last name has English roots. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “descendant of Silas, a contraction of Silvanus, the god of trees”.

• It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.
• In the 2010 US Census, 4,729 Americans gave Silas as their last name (rank 7,080).
• Silas sounds close to Salas, so it can help to search both.

Heraldry and the Silas name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Silas, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Get the complete Silas report, with a museum-style coat of arms.