Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Raija

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish variant form of Raisa [1] [2] [3]

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Raija ♀
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Raiju ♀
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Raijukka ♀
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Raijuska ♀
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Raja ♀
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Raya ♀
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Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Raija
Genitive: Raijas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Raija
Genitive: Raijan
Partitive: Raijaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Raija
Genitive: Raijas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Raija
Genitive: Raijas

Name Day

Finland Finland

9 February

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 335 people were named Raija (percentage of first or only given name: 93 %) [4]

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[6]
n.a.
 28680
n.a.
 28680 0 0
Sweden Sweden[7]
1089 1337 1089 1337 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
7
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
37
n.a.
 37
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 Raija.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  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/
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