Maïja

given name · Latin script

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

Maïja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 192(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 305
  • SESweden1 in 6.8K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

29,075 people

Sources
70 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maija in FI Finland, LV Latvia, US United States.

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)

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”).

Sources 3

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maïja 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 Maïja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland29,0751 in 19243KMaija15
LV Latvia6,1611 in 3056.2KMaija12
SE Sweden1,4971 in 6.8K1.5K—2
US United States1,3331 in 250K1.3KMaija12
DK Denmark701 in 84K70——
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

29,075 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Maïja is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Maija

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maïja mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1506. From Marija (“Mary”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
Is Maïja a male or female name?
Maïja 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 Maïja have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Maïja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maija.
Where is Maïja most common?
Maïja is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 people carrying it.
How common is the name Maïja?
In Finland, the national register counted 29,075 people named Maïja, about 1 in 192 residents.

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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, “Maïja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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