Tuija

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish tuija = 'thuja'

Thuja Image by Athantor, licensed under Creative Commons

Thuja is a general term for trees of the genus Thuja , which belongs to the Cupressaceae or cypress family. Thujas are evergreen conifers, or cone-bearing trees. The name Thuja was given to this group of trees by the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné in 1753. It comes from the Greek word thyein , which means 'to sacrifice', as cedar wood was often burned with animal sacrifices by the ancients to add a pleasing aroma to the fire.

Related Names

Tuija

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Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Tuija
Genitive:	Tuijas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Tuija
Genitive:	Tuijan
Partitive:	Tuijaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Tuija
Genitive:	Tuijas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Tuija
Genitive:	Tuijas

Name Day

Finland

25 February

Further Information

Period of Usage

• Norway: -1959

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.	14422	n.a.	14422	0	0
Sweden		485	605	485	605	0	0
Denmark		18	n.a.	18	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		15	n.a.	15	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 Tuija.