Eija

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Finnish fantasy name of unknown meaning inspired by names ending in -eija [1] [2]

2) The name may have been born from the cry of eijaa which signifies happiness in spiritual language [3]

3) Short form of names beginning with Ei-/Ej-/Ey- [3]

Related Names

Eia
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Eija
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Eijá
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Sami
Eja
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Greenlandic Swedish
Ejah
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Æja Icelandic

See also Ejan

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eija
Genitive: Eijas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eija
Genitive: Eijan
Partitive: Eijaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eija
Genitive: Eijas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eija
Genitive: Eijas

Name Day

Finland Finland

19 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 159 people were named Eija (percentage of first or only given name: 95 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
24616
n.a.
24616 0 0
Sweden Sweden[7]
1011 1311 1011 1311 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
27
n.a.
27
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
26
n.a.
26
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Eija.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/