Hilja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hilja är ett finskt namn tillkommet vid mitten av 1800-talet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɪɫʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilja is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- EEEstonia
- FIFinland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hilja är ett finskt namn tillkommet vid mitten av 1800-talet. Det är en översättning av latinets placidus ’mild, saktmodig, tystlåten’. Hilja var modenamn i östra Finland vid förra sekelskiftet. I Sverige användes det tidigast i Tornedalen.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- EEEstonia
- DEGermany
- SESweden
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Hilja is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. finnischer Herkunft, Neu bildung (19. Jh.) zu finn. hiljainen »ruhig, still«.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In urj-fin-pro, silent
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hilja Haahtib. 1874FIFinnish author and translator
- Hilja Pärssinenb. 1876FIFinnish politician, editor
- L. Onervab. 1882FInot in their usual nameFinnish poet (1882-1972)
- Hilja Gestrinb. 1882FIFinnish architect
- Hilja Riipinenb. 1883FIFinnish politician
- Hilja Vilkemaab. 1887FIFinnish politician (1887-1976)
- Hilja Jalvisteb. 1918EEEstonian gynecologist (1918-2015)
- Hilja Lätib. 1922EEEstonian art historian (1922-2013)
- Hilja Varemb. 1934EEEstonian actress (born 1934)
- Raita Karpob. 1941FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
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).
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34K | #53 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.2K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 604 | #250 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 603 | #2,429 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 371 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 360 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 343 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 320 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 302 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 288 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 269 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 261 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hilja mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hilja är ett finskt namn tillkommet vid mitten av 1800-talet.
- How do you pronounce Hilja?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪɫʒə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Hilja a male or female name?
- Hilja 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 Hilja have the most bearers?
- Hilja is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hilja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiljaThe 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, “Hilja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.