Sirja
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/ˈsirjɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Sirja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Estonian Sirja.
- FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 600K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5Mas Sirya
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 Sirja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
523 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)From Estonian Sirja.
Cited for this meaning 2
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sirja 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 | 523 | 1 in 11K | 611 | Sirja | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2as Sirya | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 41M | 10 | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Sirja | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Sirja | 3 |
523 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sirja NironenFIFinnish cellist
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 611 | #996 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 523 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #27,283 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Sirja mean, and where does it come from?
- From Estonian Sirja. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Sirja?
- In Finnish /ˈsirjɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Sirja a male or female name?
- Sirja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Sirja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 523 people named Sirja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sirja.
- Where is Sirja most common?
- Sirja is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sirja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 523 people named Sirja, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sirja?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sirjaThe 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, “Sirja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.