Valija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəʎɪʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,179 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Sievietes vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valija is read(measured from records)
Valija is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valija in English.
- Latvian28%
Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- Croatian6.7%
turski vojni i civilni upravitelj jedne oblasti, vilajeta
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
- Hindi5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valija in Hindi.
- Russian5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valija in Russian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 1,179 | 1 in 1.6K | 1.2K | Valija | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 10 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Valija | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Valija | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | — | 15 | — | — |
1,179 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). 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)
Valija 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 Spanish, valise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Valija Veščunas-Jansoneb. 1902LVLatvian lawyer
- Valija Dambeb. 1912LVLatvian linguist
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.2K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.2K | #384 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,333 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,096 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #39,686 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Valija?
- A machine transcription gives /vəʎɪʒə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Valija mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- Is Valija a male or female name?
- Valija 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 Valija?
- In the etymology graph, Valerie, Val and Valarie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valija have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Valija, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valija.
- Where is Valija most common?
- Valija is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,179 people named Valija, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Valija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valijaThe 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, “Valija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.