Given name & surname
Vilja
“grain”
Vilja is a feminine given name, probably from Finnish. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vilja probably goes back to a word meaning “grain.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
People named Vilja
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