Tarja

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish form of Darja

Related Names

See Daria

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Tarja
Genitive:	Tarjas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Tarja
Genitive:	Tarjan
Partitive:	Tarjaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Tarja
Genitive:	Tarjas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Tarja
Genitive:	Tarjas

Name Day

Finland

7 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: ca 1940

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1940-1969
  • 1950-1969
• Norway:
  • 1950-1960

Predominant Regional Usage

• Finland:
  • Karelia
• Sweden:
  • Östsverige
  • Dalarna
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Tarja Kaarina Halonen, Finnish president 2000-2012 (born 24 December 1943)
• Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli, Finnish singer (born 17 August 1977)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 171 people were named Tarja (percentage of first or only given name: 89 %)

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		n.a.	29140	n.a.	29140	0	0
Sweden		1216	1474	1216	1474	0	0
Denmark		19	n.a.	19	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		56	n.a.	56	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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 Tarja.