Silje
About 64 American babies have been named Silje since 2002, most of them around 2014. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 60 Siljes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Silje
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 64
- Estimated living today
- 60
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 8,485th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 2002
How old the living Siljes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 64 babies given the name since 2002, about 60 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Siljes
- Silje Solberg (born 1990)Norwegian handball player
- Silje Nergaard (born 1966)Norwegian singer
- Silje Norendal (born 1993)Norwegian snowboarder
- Silje Opseth (born 1999)Norwegian ski jumper
- Silje Storstein (born 1984)Norwegian actress
- Silje Vige (born 1976)Norwegian singer
- Silje Karine Muotka (born 1975)Norwegian Saami politician
People named Silje with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Silje peaked:
Silje elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Silje | 15,852 | 1st |
| Denmark girls | Silje | 1,554 | 39th |
| France girls | Silje | 5 | 6,297th |
| Poland girls | Silje | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Silje among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Silje | 35 | 44 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Silje against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.