Given name & surname
Senja
Senja is a surname from Meitei. It is used in English and Finnish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Senja developed from Ξενία.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Senja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 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 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 132 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Senja’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Senja developed from the Ancient Greek form Ξενία. In Finnish usage, Senja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Xenia. In English usage, Senja as a surname has a related form in MEITEI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Senja
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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