Turja
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɝʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 464K
- USUnited States1 in 3.3M
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 Turja 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)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
862 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turja 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 | 862 | 1 in 6.5K | 862 | Turja | 7 |
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 119 | Turja | 68 |
| IN India | 53as Turya | 1 in 25M | 53 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 7 | — | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Turja | 7 |
862 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Turja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In urj-fin-pro, nape (back of the neck)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Turija - upe Ukrainā
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)
- Ernsti Turjab. 1882FIFinnish politician
- Ilmari Turjab. 1901FIFinnish writer and journalist (1901-1998)
- Raimond Turjab. 1922EEEstonian boxer and coach (1922-1995)
- Ville Turjab. 1983FIFinnish basketball player
- Jussi Turjab. 1990FIFinnish basketball player (born 1990)
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 862 | #2,156 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 472 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 119 | #142,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,744 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- How do you pronounce Turja?
- A machine transcription gives /tɝʒə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Turja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 862 people named Turja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turja.
- Where is Turja most common?
- Turja is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Turja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 862 people named Turja, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Turja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turjaThe 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, “Turja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.