Maijá
surname · Latin script
Maijá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”).
- FIFinland1 in 192(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 250K
- LVLatvia1 in 305
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
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 192 (inferred from the name graph)
29,075 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 Maija in FI Finland, LV Latvia, 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)First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maijá 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 | #121 | 29,075 | 1 in 192 | 43K | Maija | 100 |
| LV Latvia | #935 | 6,161 | 1 in 305 | 6.2K | Maija | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,497 | 1 in 6.8K | 1.5K | Maija | 33 |
| US United States | — | 1,333 | 1 in 250K | 1.3K | Maija | 125 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 434K | — | Maija | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 398 | Maija | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Maija | 8 |
29,075 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); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Maijá mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Maijá have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Maijá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maija.
- Where is Maijá most common?
- Maijá is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maijá?
- In Finland, the national register counted 29,075 people named Maijá, about 1 in 192 residents.
- How common is Maijá compared with other names?
- In Finland, Maijá is the 121st most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maij%C3%A1The 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, “Maijá” — the 121st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.