Kaija

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sami Sami

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant spelling of Kaja [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Female form of Kai [6]

Related Names

Kaija
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Danish Finish Norwegian Sami Swedish
Kaiju
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Kaijukka
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Kaijuli
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Kaika
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Kaikko
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Finish

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
LEN see Kaijaleena

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Kaija
Genitive: Kaijas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Kaija
Genitive: Kaijan
Partitive: Kaijaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Kaija
Genitive: Kaijas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Kaija
Genitive: Kaijas

Name Day

Finland Finland

25 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 193 people were named Kaija (percentage of first or only given name: 87 %) [7]

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[8]
n.a.
18662
n.a.
18662 0 0
Sweden Sweden[9]
406 562 406 562 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
11
n.a.
11
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
50
n.a.
50
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 Kaija.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
  6. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/