| [ syll. si-lja, sil-ja ] The girl name Silja is pronounced SIHLYah KEY. Silja's language of origin is Latin. It is predominantly used in Finnish, Frisian, German, and Scandinavian. Silja is a form of the English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia. Silja is also a short form (Finnish, Frisian, German, and Scandinavian) of the German Cäcilie. See also the related form, the Scandinavian Silje. Silja is not often used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2007, among the family of girl names directly related to Silja, the English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia was the most popular. Baby names that sound like Silja include the English and French Sally, the English Scilla, the English Shayla, the Indian Sheela, the English and Irish Sheila, the English Shelia, the English Shelley, the English Shelly, the Indian Shila, the English and Hebrew Shiloh, the Yiddish Sisel, the English Sisley, the Spanish Soli, the Dutch Ceciel, the English Cecil, the English Cecile, the English Cecille, the English Ceila, the English Ceileh, the English Ceileigh, the English Celesse, the English, Italian, and Spanish Celia, the English Celie, the French Cécile, the French Célia, the French Célie, the Hungarian Cili, the Dutch, Scandinavian, and English Cilla, the English Sal, the Arabic and Turkish Saliha, the English Secelia, the English Selia, the English Shell, the German Sile, the Scottish Sìle, the Irish Síle, the Portuguese and Spanish Sol, the Spanish Suelo, the English Syl, the Polish Sylwia, the English Ceceli, the English Cecelia, the English Cecila, the English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia, the Czech, German, and Scandinavian Cecilie, the English Cecillia, the English Cecily, the Portuguese and Slavic Cecília, the Czech Cecílie, the English Ceclia, the English Ceil, the English Ceilia, the English Cesilie, the English Cicelie, the English Cicely, the English Cicilie, the Scandinavian Cille, the English Ceceilia, the English Cecilea, the Polish Cecylia, and the English Celesia. KEY: approx English pronunciation for Silja: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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