Paju
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pæʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paju is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *paju, from Proto-Uralic *pajiw (“willow; a species of Salix”). Cognate with Finnish paju and Hungarian fagyal.
- FIFinland1 in 24K(measured from records)
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)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
234 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Payu in US United States, MY Malaysia, IN India.
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)
- Proto-Finnic*paju(measured from records)
- Proto-Uralic*pajiw“willow; a species of Salix”(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic *paju, from Proto-Uralic *pajiw (“willow; a species of Salix”). Cognate with Finnish paju and Hungarian fagyal.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paju 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 234 | 1 in 24K | 1.7K | — | 16 |
| KR South Korea | — | — | — | Paju | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Payu | 48 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Payu | 5 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Payu | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 546 | — | 18 |
234 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); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Paju is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, willow (Salix)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, willow (tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-oce-pro, eyebrow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Estonian, willow
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otto Pajub. 1926EEEstonian printmaker (1926-2016)
- Aili Pajub. 1938EEEstonian medical researcher, athletics competitor and coach (born 1938)
- Juhan Pajub. 1939EEEstonian writer and journalist (1939-2003)
- Ants Pajub. 1944EEEstonian politician and athletics competitor (1944-2011)
- Anne Pajub. 1950EEEstonian chemist (born 1950)
- Kalju Pajub. 1952EEEstonian medical researcher (born 1952)
- Imbi Pajub. 1959EEEstonian writer (born 1959)
- Katrin Gross-Pajub. 1963EEEstonian neurologist (born 1963)
- Margus Pajub. 1983EEEstonian film director and screenwriter (born 1983)
- Andre Pajub. 1995EEEstonian footballer (born 1995)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.7K | #1,179 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 709 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 546 | #57 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 546 | #43 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 488 | #63 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #125,803 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Paju mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *paju, from Proto-Uralic *pajiw (“willow; a species of Salix”). Cognate with Finnish paju and Hungarian fagyal. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Paju?
- A machine transcription gives /pæʒu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Paju have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 234 people named Paju, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paju most common?
- Paju is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paju?
- In Finland, the national register counted 234 people named Paju, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pajuThe 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, “Paju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.