Girl · English, from Latin through French
Silence
Say it: SY-lence
Meaning
The English word silence, recalling the scriptural ideal that women keep silence.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Puritan name recorded in 17th- and 18th-century New England.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 9 babies given this name since 2005
- At its height in 2005, about 1 in 205,200 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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