Mirja

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mirja is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Mirja är en finsk folklig form av Mirjam (→ Miriam).

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 340◐
  • GEGeorgia1 in 1.6K
  • AFAfghanistan1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈21K ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
304 ●

224K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 411 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MirzaLatin · Hindi●71K records
ᲛირზაGeorgian · Georgian●4.7K records
МирзоCyrillic · Tajik●367 records
ΜιρζαGreek · Greek●1 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mirza in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 24 more and Мирзо in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Mirja är en finsk folklig form av Mirjam (→ Miriam).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mirja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—163,746107K rec.—18KMirza145
PK Pakistan#14040,3498.6K rec.——Mirza115
FI Finland—13,572△36 rec.1 in 41121KMirja5
GB United Kingdom—3,3547.9K rec.—listedMirza159
MY Malaysia—2,8853.5K rec.——Mirza42
GE Georgia#2992,4972.7K rec.1 in 1.6K2.5KMirza39
BD Bangladesh#5102,2983.3K rec.——Mirza95
DE Germany—2,2043.5K rec.—1Mirza103
US United States—2,09861K rec.1 in 159K6.2KMirza304
SA Saudi Arabia#5882,0891.4K rec.——Mirza80
AU Australia—1,4803.5K rec.—1Mirza103
SE Sweden—1,430△512 rec.1 in 7.1K1.4KMirza33

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish80K58%
  • Hindi19K14%
  • 9.3K7%
  • German5.6K4%
  • English5K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish80,05058%
Hindi18,91414%
9,3327%
German5,6124%
English5,0124%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mirja is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name22K records spelled Mirja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland

    Also written Mīrjā, Mirjā

  • English given name8.7K records spelled Mirja5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Miřja, Mirjā

  • Croatian given name5.2K records spelled Mirja7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, Croatia, Finland

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian

    Also written Mirjā

  • Telugu given name2.6K records spelled Mirja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written మరజ, Marja

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mirja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., finnische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Maltese, plural of mera

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05001K1.5K200020052010201520201.2K · 1999

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Mirja in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
19991,203
20001,197
20011,186
20021,180
20031,171
20041,168
20051,153
20061,147
20071,138
20081,133
20091,136
20101,137
20111,133
20121,124
20131,116
20141,097
20151,085
20161,078
20171,076
20181,068
20191,054
20201,034

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Mirja Mane, b. 1929Mirja Hietamies, b. 1931Mirja Lehtonen, b. 1942Mirja Ryynänen, b. 1944Mirja Boes, b. 1971Mirja Turestedt, b. 1972Mirja Mahir, b. 1974Mirja Du Mont, b. 1976

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 37 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Mirja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—21K#231
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—18K#676
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—14K—
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—2.3K#1,831
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.4K#1,334
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19991.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20001.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20011.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20021.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20031.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—329#9,843

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 · 207 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mirja?
We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Mirja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Mirja have the most bearers?
Mirja is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mirza.
How common is Mirja compared with other names?
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Mirja is the 30th most common given name of 3,870 given names recorded there.
Is Mirja a male or female name?
Mirja is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Mirja mean?
Recorded meaning: Mirja är en finsk folklig form av Mirjam (→ Miriam).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Mirja” — the 30th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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