Kija

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Indra (५)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 97Kas Kiya(measured from records)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 3.6K
  • SESweden1 in 537K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈26,000 named Kiya, est.

Sources
254 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KiyaLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Kiya in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ET Ethiopia and 1 more.

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)

Indra (५)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kija 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.

Where Kija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia≈26,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Kiya9
TZ Tanzania≈16,000 est.≈1 in 3.6K1Kija15
US United States3,420as Kiya1 in 97K3.3KKiya254
KE Kenya≈240 est.≈1 in 223K—Kija5
GB United Kingdom≈160 est.≈1 in 407K3Kiya77
CG Congo - Brazzaville≈80 est.≈1 in 67K1—1
SE Sweden191 in 537K19Kiya6

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); A list of Congolese names with meanings published by ToussMagazine.. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kija is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Korean given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written Ki-Ja

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Tanzania

    Also written Kijà, Kïja

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tanzania

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Kiya, Кия

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Kiya

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kija is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, cue (long stick with a pointy end used in certain games, especially pool or billiards)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, genitive singular of kij

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cim, scutching board

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ban, where

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Spēļu nūja ar smailu galu (parasti biljardā)

    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)

Informalनमस्ते Kija जी,Hi Kija, (English)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kija under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kija mean, and where does it come from?
Indra (५) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
How do you pronounce Kija?
A machine transcription gives /kɪə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Kija a male or female name?
Kija 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 Kija have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Kiya in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kija?
In Sweden, the national register counted 19 people named Kija, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Kija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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