Wilja
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/vɪlja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilja is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- SESweden
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Wilja 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 got, romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰
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.
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 632 | #2,339 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 364 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 343 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 309 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 283 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 252 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 220 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 185 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 131 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 110 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 102 | #5,456 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Wilja?
- In the etymology graph, Wiltja is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wilja?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪlja/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Wilja a male or female name?
- Wilja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Wilja have the most bearers?
- Wilja is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Wilja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiljaThe 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, “Wilja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.