Tuija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: white cedar, red cedar, thuja (any one of the species in the genus Thuja)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tui̯jɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 443(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 17K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
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 Tuija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 443 (inferred from the name graph)
12,579 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Туйя in FI Finland and Туя in RU Russia.
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)
white cedar, red cedar, thuja (any one of the species in the genus Thuja)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuija 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.
12,579 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register), counting the spelling tuija. 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Tuija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Tuija är ett finskt namn lånat från växtbenämningen tuja (en cypressart). Namnet, även stavat Tuja, började användas i början av 1900-talet, kanske i samband med att trädet blev vanligare i Norden.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Tuija Lindströmb. 1950FIFinnish photographer (1950-2017)
- Tuija Lehtinenb. 1954FIFinnish writer
- Tuija Pohjolab. 1954FIFinnish politician and swimming instructor
- Tuija Nurmib. 1958FIFinnish politician
- Tuija Vuoksialab. 1961FIFinnish biathlete
- Eve Hietamiesb. 1964FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer and journalist
- Susanna Rahkamob. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice dancer and sports executive
- Tuija Braxb. 1965FIFinnish politician
- Tuija Turunenb. 1965FIFinnish professor
- Tuija Hyyrynenb. 1988FIFinnish 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).
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14K | #154 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 590 | #2,475 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 538 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 536 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 533 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 529 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 528 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 526 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 518 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 517 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 516 | — |
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 Tuija mean, and where does it come from?
- white cedar, red cedar, thuja (any one of the species in the genus Thuja) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tuija?
- A machine transcription gives /tui̯jɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Tuija a male or female name?
- Tuija 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 Tuija have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tuija, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled туйя.
- Where is Tuija most common?
- Tuija is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 443 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tuija?
- In Finland, the national register counted 12,579 people named Tuija, about 1 in 443 residents.
What do you want to know about Tuija?
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/tuijaThe 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, “Tuija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.