Silka
A girls’ name of Yiddish origin, meaning silk; smooth and soft fabric.
Babies a year
3
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5927
3 babies
Silka by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Silka.
Its American peak was 10 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Silka. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Silastrength or virtue5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Silvaforest or woodland6 in the US (2017)
- Sienareddish-brown earth pigment; place name454 in the US (2017)
- Salmasafe, peaceful, secure63 in England and Wales (2025)
- Silviaof the forest; wooded; a form of Sylvia142 in the US (2017)
- Sidraa star or the Pleiades88 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean gentleness
Like Silka, each of these has gentleness in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Leahweary; also delicate5,168 in the US (2017)
- Alicenoble, of noble kind825 in England and Wales (2025)
- Delilahdelicate, languishing1,180 in England and Wales (2025)
- Milliegentle strength; from Millicent or Amelia1,080 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alisonnoble kind; a form of Alice812 in the US (2017)
- Almanourishing, kind222 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Silka
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