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Taija

Girls' name

Seedling, through Taina

Taija has been given to 822 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1999, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Taija, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taija: meaning, origin, and history

Seedling, through Taina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taija means

Taija belongs to the name family reached through Taija → Taina. Its meaning is “seedling”.

Origin, language, and formation

Taija is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Taina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Taija is pronounced /ˈtɑi̯jɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 822 girls were recorded with the name Taija between 1985 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,634 in 1999.

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 Taija?

Taija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taija 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taija was born before 1999 — so the typical Taija is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
822
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (336).

Is Taija 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (54)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,634
1999

Spellings of Taija

Taija is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 24.6% against Taija's 0.07%.

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.

Where Taija is used

Across 1910–2025, Taija was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 999,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taija around the world

Where Taija 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2009
    #4,564
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #2,317
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taija 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
#2,634
1999
Peak year
1999
54 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
822
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taija

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

TailynTailaTaiaTainaTaitumTaiyaTairaKaijaMaijaTailynnNaijaTaishaTaigeTailorTaibaTaiKadijaDaijaTaisTaijahSofijaTaimiTaisleySrija

Sibling names for Taija

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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