Silje

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Cecilie ^[1]

Related Names

see Caecilia

Name Days

Norway

22 November

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Female ♀	Male ♂	Commonness
Norway[2] #	10281	0
Denmark[3] #	1343	0
Sweden[4] #	170	0
Finland[5] &	23	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][3][2][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[2]:

Sources: ^{[4] [3] [2] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi