Silje

given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Silje is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a chest strap on a harness (in the place of a collar).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 352◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.9K
  • SESweden1 in 17K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
115 ●

9.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 352 ◐

Norway

Meaning & origin●

a chest strap on a harness (in the place of a collar)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Silje is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#5115,539△6.9K rec.1 in 35252KSilje115
DK Denmark#3613,144△206 rec.1 in 1.9K3.1KSilje65
SE Sweden#937618911 rec.1 in 17K618Silje19
US United States—545342 rec.—5Silje63
AU Australia—208189 rec.—1Silje30
GB United Kingdom—16596 rec.——Silje25
IN India—121127 rec.——Silje5
NL Netherlands—119△40 rec.1 in 145K119Silje12
DE Germany—105104 rec.—1Silje30
GH Ghana—7774 rec.——Silje5
EE Estonia—7513 rec.—47Silje6
FI Finland—42△3 rec.1 in 133K73Silje3

Roughly 16K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 352). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Norwegian Bokmål52K66%
  • Danish11K13%
  • Norwegian9.4K12%
  • English1.9K2%
  • German3131%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Norwegian Bokmål52,12866%
Danish10,53113%
Norwegian9,39712%
English1,8782%
German3131%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Silje is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name198 records spelled Silje2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Šilje

  • Russian given name162 records spelled Silje5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Силье, Сільє

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0200400600800197019801990200020102020712 · 1985

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Silje in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1966–2025
Yearrecords
19664
19678
196813
196920
197025
197136
197253
197370
1974127
1975258
1976303
1977318
1978323
1979360
1980389
1981436
1982487
1983516
1984598
1985712
1986684
1987601
1988594
1989627
1990636
1991686
1992597
1993590
1994579
1995534
1996464
1997440
1998493
1999375
2000362
2001370
2002306
2003257
2004236
2005176
2006147
2007132
2008158
2009125
2010101
201199
201271
201352
201439
201562
201633
201734
201822
201923
202019
202112
202221
202318
20247
202514

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 60 years between 1966–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Silje Nergaard, b. 1966Silje Torp, b. 1974Silje Karine Muotka, b. 1975Silje Vige, b. 1976Silje Salomonsen, b. 1978Silje Reinåmo, b. 1982Silje Storstein, b. 1984Silje Solberg, b. 1990Silje Norendal, b. 1993Silje Opseth, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Silje
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—52K#46
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202216K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202116K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202316K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202416K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202016K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)201916K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202516K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)201816K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)201716K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)201616K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)201516K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 216 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Silje?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Silje (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Silje have the most bearers?
We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Silje in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled silje.
Where is Silje most common?
Silje is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 352 people carrying it.
How common is Silje compared with other names?
In Norway, Silje is the 51st most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
Is Silje a male or female name?
Silje is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Silje mean?
Recorded meaning: a chest strap on a harness (in the place of a collar)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Silje” — the 51st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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