The sylvan Surname
sylvan Name Meaning and History
- Altered spelling of French Sylvain.
- Swedish: derivative of the Latin adjective sylvanus ‘of or pertaining to forest’, used as a translation of Swedish skog ‘forest’, for any of several Swedish vernacular names of which this word was a component.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Amanda Sylvan of Biddeford, Maine c1910 related to Cloutier |
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