Aija
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aija is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Latvian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija.
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K◐
- LVLatvia1 in 272
- DKDenmark1 in 67K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.9K ●
- Sources
- 84 ●
- 1 in 272 ◐
across 10 countries
1.0K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Meaning & origin●
Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | — | 6,928△ | 44 rec. | 1 in 272 | 6.9K | Aija | 15 |
| FI Finland | #879 | 2,161△ | 450 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 2.5K | Aija | 38 |
| US United States | — | 504 | 279 rec. | 1 in 660K | 504 | Aija | 84 |
| SE Sweden | — | 142△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 72K | 142 | Aija | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 87 | — | 1 in 67K | 87 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 67 | 60 rec. | — | 18 | Aija | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | 49 | 22 rec. | — | 33 | Aija | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 36 | — | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | 25 | 17 rec. | — | — | Aija | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 19 | 15 rec. | — | — | Aija | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 11 | 7 rec. | — | — | Aija | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 10 | — | 1 in 3.8M | 10 | — | — |
Roughly 6.9K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 272). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish11K41%
- Latvian9.3K35%
- English2.5K9%
- Hindi3601%
- Spanish3581%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 10,736 | 41% |
| Latvian | 9,340 | 35% |
| English | 2,458 | 9% |
| Hindi | 360 | 1% |
| Spanish | 358 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aija is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Ale - ibo tautas mitoloģijā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 24 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2022 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1979–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Aija Žilevičab. 1940LVLatvian physician
- Aija Lāceb. 1947LVLatvian journalist (1947-)
- Aija Barčab. 1949LVLatvian politician (born 1949)
- Aija Kukuleb. 1956LVLatvian singer
- Aija Jansoneb. 1958Latvian historian, author
- Aija Bleyb. 1967(1967) film producer and director, photographer
- Aija Tēraudab. 1982USLatvian actress and model (born 1982)
- Aija Andrejevab. 1986LVLatvian singer (born 1986)
- Aija Brumermaneb. 1986LVLatvian basketball player (born 1986)
- Aija Putniņab. 1988LVLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.9K | #62 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.5K | #957 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 504 | #20,403 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 188 | #5,029 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 142 | #6,712 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 107 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 106 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 105 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 104 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 104 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aija?
- We estimate roughly 9.9 thousand people bear Aija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aija have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Aija in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aija.
- Where is Aija most common?
- Aija is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 272 people carrying it.
- How common is Aija compared with other names?
- In Finland, Aija is the 879th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Aija a male or female name?
- Aija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Aija mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aija” — the 879th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.