Tarja
Tarja is a girl's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 14,959th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 11 Tarjas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tarja
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11
- Estimated living today
- 11
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 14,959th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1969
Notable Tarjas
- Tarja Halonen (born 1943)President of Finland from 2000 to 2012
- Tarja Turunen (born 1977)Finnish singer
- Tarja Cronberg (born 1943)Finnish politician
People named Tarja with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year Tarja peaked:
Tarja elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Tarja | 95 | 650th |
| France girls | Tarja | 10 | 7,149th |
| England and Wales girls | Tarja | 6 | 5,785th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tarja: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Tarja | 92 | 0.007% | 480th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Tarja | 2 | 0.000% | 745th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Tarja | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Tarja by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Tarja among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tarja | 23,767 | 25,044 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tarja against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.