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Tarja

Girls' name

Form of Orthodox

Tarja has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Tarja, 2010

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarja: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Orthodox

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tarja means

Tarja is a form of Orthodox.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarja is used in Finnish.

Tarja comes through Russian Дарья and Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Orthodox, Δᾱρεῖος and Daria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Tarja is pronounced /ˈtɑrjɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Tarja between 1969 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,552 in 1969.

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 Tarja?

Tarja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarja 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarja was born before 2010 — so the typical Tarja is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Tarja 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,552
1969

Spellings of Tarja

Tarja is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 23.1% against Tarja'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.

Tarja around the world

Where Tarja 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
    2008–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2010–2015
    #7,149
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1959–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tarja 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
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Best rank ever
#8,552
1969
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tarja

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

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Sibling names for Tarja

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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