Viia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/viia/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain
Viia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 21K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
- SESweden1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
269 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)a female given name from Ancient Greek
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Viia 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.
269 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names 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: 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); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the ee-stat-nimed 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)Viia 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 umb, condemn
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)- Viia Uluots-Wigetb. 1927SEEstonian gymnast (1927-1987)
- Viia Partsb. 1968EEEstonian economist (born 1968)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 313 | #1,392 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 269 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 131 | #638 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,210 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #44,710 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #107,002 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 Viia?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /viia/; in Finnish /ʋiɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Viia mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Viia?
- In the etymology graph, Viiu is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Viia a male or female name?
- Viia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia).
- In which country does Viia have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 269 people named Viia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Viia most common?
- Viia is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Viia?
- In Finland, the national register counted 269 people named Viia, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Viia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viiaThe 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, “Viia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.