Varja

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/vɑɹʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Varja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 179K
  • HRCroatia1 in 235K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

94 people, 2025

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Värjä in FI Finland.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Varja 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.

Where Varja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia941 in 22K99——
SE Sweden571 in 179K57Varja5
HR Croatia181 in 235K18——
FI Finland111 in 507K55Värjä5
LV Latvia51 in 376K5——

94 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Varja is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Várja, Varjã

  • Russian given name78 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Greek

    Also written Варвара, Varvara, Barbara, Варя, Βαρβαρα

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Varya

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Varja 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 Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of varjú

    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)

194019601980Varja Cvetko Orešnik, b. 1947Varja Kališnik, b. 1959Varja Balžalorsky Antić, b. 1979

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)

InformalПривет, Varja!Hi Varja, (English)

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 20 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Varja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—99#1,511
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202594#763
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202493#753
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202393#753
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202192#723
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202291#739
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202088#731
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201986#725
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201882#737
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201778#746
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201678#735
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201478#724

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

How do you pronounce Varja?
A machine transcription gives /vɑɹʒə/ (IPA) for Russian.
Is Varja a male or female name?
Varja 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 Varja have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 94 people named Varja, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Varja most common?
Varja is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Varja?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 94 people named Varja in 2025, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Varja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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