Given name & surname
Silje
Silje is a feminine given name. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Norwegian usage, Silje is a short form of Cecilie.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Silje through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 0 boys · 64 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −80%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Silje’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Silje is a short form of Cecilie.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Silje
- Silje Solberg-ØsthasselNorwegian handball playerborn 1990
- Silje NergaardNorwegian singerborn 1966
- Silje NorendalNorwegian snowboarderborn 1993
- Silje OpsethNorwegian ski jumperborn 1999
- Silje StorsteinNorwegian actressborn 1984
- Silje VigeNorwegian singerborn 1976
- Silje Karine MuotkaNorwegian Saami politicianborn 1975
- Silje WaadeNorwegian handball playerborn 1994
- Silje JørgensenNorwegian footballerborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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