Tija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1800. From Doroteja (“Dorothy”). Cognate with Estonian Tiia.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 10K
- HRCroatia1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
612 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1800. From Doroteja (“Dorothy”). Cognate with Estonian Tiia.
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tija 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.
612 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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)
Tija is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, stem (of plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, productivity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tija Bangab. 1882LVLatvian writer, poet and actor (1882-1966)
- Tija Gomilar Zickerob. 2000SISlovenian handball player
- Tija Horvatb. 2008SIbadminton player
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Tija mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1800. From Doroteja (“Dorothy”). Cognate with Estonian Tiia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Tija a male or female name?
- Tija 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.
- What are other forms of the name Tija?
- In the etymology graph, Tanya, Tatiana and Tania are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tija have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 612 people named Tija, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tija.
- Where is Tija most common?
- Tija is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tija?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 612 people named Tija in 2025, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tija?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tijaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.