Taija is a female first name.
Recently, the name Taija has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Taija. That means that a girl named Taija is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Taija.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Taija. Girls named Taija have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,405 Taija ranked higher than ever before in 1999. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Taija has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Taija only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Taija was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Taija in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 62 women and girls named Taija, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 62 women and girls named Taija live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Taija. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Taija lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Taija and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Taija relative to its female population is Virginia. And even there, only one in 431,653 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Taija.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Taija is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Taija and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Taija, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Igloo
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Taija
Taija
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
I
J
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
I
J
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Taija sounds like this:
