Aija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija.
- LVLatvia1 in 272(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 64K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
6,928 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aija is read(measured from records)
Aija is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Latvian36%
Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ale - ibo tautas mitoloģijā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- English26%
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Finnish9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aija in Finnish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #981 | 6,928 | 1 in 272 | 6.9K | Aija | 17 |
| FI Finland | #562 | 2,161 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.5K | Aija | 44 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 1 in 656K | 504 | Aija | 76 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 621K | — | Aija | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 142 | 1 in 72K | 142 | Aija | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 87 | 1 in 67K | 87 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 33 | Aija | 12 |
6,928 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
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 | #479 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aija mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sāpju, prieka, izbrīna interjekcija
- 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.
- In which country does Aija have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Aija, more than in any other country we hold, 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 the name Aija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6,928 people named Aija, about 1 in 272 residents.
- How common is Aija compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Aija is the 981st most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aijaThe 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, “Aija” — the 981st most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.