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Silje

Girls' name

Diminutive of Cecilia

Silje has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Silje, 2022

1 in 677,000

Silje over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silje: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Cecilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silje means

Silje is a diminutive of Cecilia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Silje is used in Norwegian and Danish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Silje → Cecilia. The family’s proposed meaning is “blind”, recorded in English with the source elements caecus.

Origin, language, and formation

Silje is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecilia and Cecilie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Silje between 2002 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2014; its best national rank was #8,895 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Silje?

Silje had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silje sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silje. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Siljes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silje was born before 2015 — so the typical Silje is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
76.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
64
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 76.6% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Silje rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (13)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,895
2014

Spellings of Silje

Silje is not the most common spelling — Rilee is, with 18.8% against Silje's 0.36%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Silje around the world

Where Silje ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2011–2011
    #6,297
    in 2011
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #273
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Silje by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,895
2014
Peak year
2014
13 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Silje

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Silje

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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