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Irja

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Finnish spelling of Ирья (Irya), a Russian pet form of Irina (see Irene) [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) From the Finnish place name Irjala, derived from a form of Georgius [3] [4]

Related Names

Iria ♀
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Irja ♀
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Irjukka ♀
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Irjuska ♀
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See also Arja, Erja, Ia and Yrja

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Irjuson Iceland

Female

Irjudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Irja
Genitive: Irjas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Irja
Genitive: Irjan
Partitive: Irjaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Irja
Accusative: Irju
Dative: Irju
Genitive: Irju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Irja
Genitive: Irjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Irja
Genitive: Irjas

Name Days

Finland Finland

30 January

Sweden Sweden

5 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Agnes Irja Browallius (13 October 1901 - 9 December 1968), Swedish teacher, novelist and short story writer

Trivia

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[7]
n.a.
 28128
n.a.
 28128 0 0
Sweden Sweden[8]
812 1338 812 1338 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
14
n.a.
 14
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
2 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
136
n.a.
 136
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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 Irja.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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