Silka — girls' name

What the Data Says About Silka

The Social Security Administration has registered 70 babies named Silka between 1992 and 2025, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Silka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 10 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Silka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 34 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Silka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Silka in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Silka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 70 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.