Entry № 9668 · German origin

Silke Silke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Smooth as silk"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "smooth as silk".

Silke is a name of German origin, meaning smooth as silk.

Smooth as silk — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Silke
Transliteration
Silke
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Silke stands.

Silke does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Silkes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Silke.

The number behind Silke.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Silke reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.