Wija
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive/accusative singular of wij
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/wˈid͡ʒa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wija is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 154K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 220Kas 위자
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 Wija 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 named 위자, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled 위자 in KR South Korea.
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)genitive/accusative singular of wij
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | 위자 | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 112 | 1 in 154K | 112 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 101 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | 25 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 6 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)Wija is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mep, to swim
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mkj, place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, Poro messenger
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende 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)- Lucky Wijab. 1975IDactor
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 101 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 101 | #29,857 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #30,697 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 25 | #46,204 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Wija mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive/accusative singular of wij Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wija?
- A machine transcription gives /wˈid͡ʒa/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Wija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 235 people named 위자 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wija is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wija?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 112 people named Wija, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wijaThe 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, “Wija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.