Re: can anyone tell me the meaning of my name?
by Daividh (guest)
1/25/2001, 7:29 PM
"Sylvan" can mean "characteristic of a wooded area" as an adjective or more appropriately "a person or spirit who lives in the woods" as a noun. I believe the initial word origin is Latin.
The most famous occurrence is in "PennSYLVANia", which means "[William] Penn's Woods".