Given name & surname
Saija
Saija is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Saija is a diminutive of Saara.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saija through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 0 boys · 46 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Saija’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Saija is a diminutive of Saara. In Italian usage, Saija as a surname has a related form in SAIA.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Saija
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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