Márja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Márja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. Recorded meaning: A vernacular form of Maria first recorded in the 17th century.
- FIFinland1 in 134(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K
- SESweden1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
41,659 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marja in FI Finland, NL Netherlands, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A vernacular form of Maria first recorded in the 17th century.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Márja counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #61 | 41,659 | 1 in 134 | 54K | Marja | 105 |
| NL Netherlands | #213 | 6,468 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.5K | Marja | 92 |
| SE Sweden | #665 | 2,832 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.8K | Marja | 46 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Marja | 72 |
| US United States | — | 759 | 1 in 438K | 750 | Marja | 203 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 187 | 1 in 11K | 187 | Marja | 8 |
| EE Estonia | #920 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | listed | Marja | 16 |
41,659 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Márja mean, and where does it come from?
- A vernacular form of Maria first recorded in the 17th century. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 2 other sources.
- Is Márja a male or female name?
- Márja 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.
- In which country does Márja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Márja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marja.
- Where is Márja most common?
- Márja is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Márja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 41,659 people named Márja, about 1 in 134 residents.
- How common is Márja compared with other names?
- In Finland, Márja is the 61st most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1rjaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Márja” — the 61st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.