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Seija

Girls' name

Serene, clear

Seija has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Seija, 2011

1 in 523,000

Seija over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seija: meaning, origin, and history

Serene, clear

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seija means

Seija means “serene, clear”, associated with sees.

Origin, language, and formation

Seija is used in Finnish.

Seija is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Seija is pronounced /ˈsei̯jɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Seija between 2011 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #14,580 in 2011.

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 Seija?

Seija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 251,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seija 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 2011 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 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seija was born before 2011 — so the typical Seija is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Seija 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,580
2011

Spellings of Seija

Seija is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 43.5% against Seija's <0.01%.

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.

Seija around the world

Where Seija 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Seija 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
#14,580
2011
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Seija

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

SeiaSeilySeineSeikoSeilaniSeirySeidiSeinaSeiniSeilahDwijaSeinnaArijaSeidinaSeiannaEnijaShrijaDijaLidijaRaijaCijaManijaTeijaVija

Sibling names for Seija

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

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