Entry № 5113 · Finnish origin

Kaija Kaija — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "a seagull".

Kaija is a name of Finnish origin, meaning a seagull.

A seagull — a Finnish name.

The name in its native script.

Kaija
Transliteration
Kaija
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Kaija stands.

Kaija 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.

Kaijas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kaija.

The number behind Kaija.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kaija reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.