Aija

Girls' name

Possibly lady, through Eija

Aija has been given to 388 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Aija, 2022

1 in 423,000

Aija over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aija: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly lady, through Eija

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aija means

Aija belongs to the name family reached through Aija → Eija → Freja → Freyja. Its meaning is “lady”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aija is used in Finnish and Latvian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eija, Aili, Freja and Freyja.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Aija is pronounced /ˈɑi̯jɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 388 girls were recorded with the name Aija between 1979 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,306 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aija?

Aija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 423,000; 8 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 205,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 293,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aija sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aija was born before 2003 — so the typical Aija is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 73.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 388; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Aija rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (30)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 45.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,306; 2003

Spellings of Aija

Aija is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 16.4% against Aija's <0.01%.

Lisa16.4%967,229
Anna15.5%914,859
Ava5.8%344,097
Mia5.3%310,219
Tina5.0%292,146
Rita4.8%284,452
Anita3.6%215,165
Ida3.2%187,929

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aija around the world

Where Aija ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1950–2012
#871
in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aija by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,306; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 30 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 388
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aija

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Naija Aijah Sofija Srija Kaija Maija Kadija Nija Mija Anija Deija Tija Emilija Taija Daija Hadija Tanija Adrija Marija Lamija Alaija Dwija Natalija Lucija

Sibling names for Aija

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shreya Delanie Hailie Kayli Sydnee Iyana Iyanna Laci

For a brother

Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary Keyon

Explore around Aija

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