Valja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/valja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Валя (Valja).
- CZCzechia1 in 486K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 486K (inferred from the name graph)
22 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Välja in EE Estonia.
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)
Borrowed from Russian Валя (Valja).
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valja 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 22 | 1 in 486K | 22 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 21 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Valja | 22 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Valja | 13 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 11 | Välja | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Valja | 3 |
22 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Valja 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 izh, a female given name, equivalent to English Val
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.
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #3,133 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #2,356 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 11 | #2,467 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #47,584 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Valja mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Валя (Valja). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Valja?
- A machine transcription gives /valja/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Valja a male or female name?
- Valja 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 Valja have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 22 people named Valja, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Valja most common?
- Valja is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 486 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valja?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 22 people named Valja, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Valja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valjaThe 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, “Valja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.