Anija
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Anija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 40K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 191K
- INIndia≈1 in 270K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled আনিজা in BD Bangladesh.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 275K | 1 | Anija | 35 |
| US United States | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 277 | Anija | 18 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | আনিজা | 4 |
| LV Latvia | 47 | 1 in 40K | 48 | Anija | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Anija | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 13 | Anija | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | 11 | 1 in 191K | 11 | — | 1 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Anija 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 Albanian, definite nominative singular of anije
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 277 | #30,234 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 48 | #1,618 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 22 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 19 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Anija a male or female name?
- Anija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Anija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Anija in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anija.
- Where is Anija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anija?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Anija in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Anija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anijaThe 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, “Anija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.