Välja
surname · Latin script
Välja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: genitive singular of väli.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 22K
- SESweden1 in 486K
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)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
259 people
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Väljä in FI Finland.
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)
genitive singular of väli
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Välja 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 | — | 259 | 1 in 22K | 259 | Väljä | 2 |
| EE Estonia | #924 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 11 | Välja | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | — | 22 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
259 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Välja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, to choose
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ado Väljab. 1889Estonian forester (1889-1952)
- Margus Väljab. 1958EEEstonian journalist (born 1958)
- Egmont Väljab. 1963EEEstonian cellist (born 1963)
- Aivo Väljab. 1968EEEstonian conductor (born 1968)
- Leele Väljab. 1968EEEstonian art historian (born 1968)
- Johannes Väljab. 1994EEEstonian cellist (born 1994)
- Henri Väljab. 2001EEEstonian association football player (born 2001)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Välja mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive singular of väli Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Välja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 259 people named Välja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled väljä.
- How common is the name Välja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 259 people named Välja, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Välja compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Välja is the 924th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A4ljaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Välja” — the 924th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.