Last name: SYLVESTER
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SYLVESTER : This last name is indexed 58,344 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SYLVESTER : English and German: from the Middle English and Latin personal name Silvester ‘dweller in the forest’ (a derivative of silva ‘wood’). The name was borne by three popes including a contemporary of Constantine the Great and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.
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