Aija
Aija was last recorded in 2022, when 8 babies were given it; 388 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aija mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aija is “a female given name”
Variant of Eija (compare Laila ~ Leila), or from a pet form of Aili, Aino, Alli, Anja and Arja. First recorded as a formal given name in Finland during 1890-1894.
/ˈɑi̯jɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aija?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,259, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 2003, the peak
Aija peaked in 2003, when 30 girls were given it, #4,306 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | #11,259 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,758 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,199 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,920 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,171 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,581 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,037 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,526 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,384 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,469 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 20 | #6,551 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,620 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,739 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,717 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,264 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,490 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,306 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,048 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,363 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,031 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,424 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,364 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,624 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,066 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,804 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,124 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,264 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,493 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,174 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,979 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,380 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,394 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,222 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aija, and how old are they?
An estimated 383 Americans named Aija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 507 people named Aija (504 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 376 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,491 babies since 1880, Aija is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 57 babies recorded by SSA was a Aija (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aija
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aija and names like it
- Compare Aija and AjaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAija peaked in 2003.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aija: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Aija.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aija alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.