Entry № 8439 · Finnish origin

Raija Raija — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Finnish
Meaning
"A gentle ewe"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a gentle ewe".

Raija is a name of Finnish origin, meaning a gentle ewe.

A gentle ewe — a Finnish name.

The name in its native script.

Raija
Transliteration
Raija
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Raija stands.

Raija does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Raijas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Raija.

The number behind Raija.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Raija reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.