Sija

loc · Latin script

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

Sija is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala
  • INIndia

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sija counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—1Sija39
GT Guatemala——Sija3
NL Netherlands—566—3
SI Slovenia—86——
FI Finland—10——

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Sija is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šija

  • Bulgarian given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, India, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сия, Siya, Siia, Сија, Šija

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)

Sija is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of sijati

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

  • In Finnish, place, position, stead

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

  • In urj-fin-pro, place, position

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

  • In olo, place

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

  • In sje, they

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »crn, mrk«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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)

19401960198020002020Ziad Abu Amr, b. 1950Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh, b. 1953Ziad Fazah, b. 1954زياد الرحباني, b. 1956Ziad Doueiri, b. 1963Ziad Tlemçani, b. 1963Ziad Jarrah, b. 1975Ziad Jaziri, b. 1978Ziad Bakri, b. 1980Ziyad Al-Johani, b. 2001
  • Ziad Abu Amrb. 1950PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician and writer
  • Ziyad Al-Nakhalehb. 1953PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
  • Ziad Fazahb. 1954BRnot in their usual nameLiberian polyglot
  • زياد الرحبانيb. 1956LBnot in their usual nameLebanese musician and writer
  • Ziad Doueirib. 1963LBnot in their usual nameLebanese film director
  • Ziad Tlemçanib. 1963TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
  • Ziad Jarrahb. 1975LBnot in their usual nameLebanese terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1975–2001)
  • Ziad Jazirib. 1978TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
  • Ziad Bakrib. 1980ILnot in their usual namePalestinian actor
  • Ziyad Al-Johanib. 2001SAnot in their usual nameSaudi footballer

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Sija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—566#1,872
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—319#4,181
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—86#1,628
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202584#803
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202479#822
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202374#842
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202265#873
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202157#941
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202044#1,060
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201928#1,370
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201816#1,846
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)201916—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

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Sija is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sija.

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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, “Sija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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