Oja (surname)

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Oja
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Nigula stream (Nigula oja) in Tartu County, Estonia
Origin
Language(s) Estonian, Finnish
Meaning stream (Estonian and Finnish)
ditch (Finnish)
Region of origin Estonia, Finland
Other names
Related names Ojala, Ojamaa, Ojaste, Ojastu

Oja is an Estonian and Finnish surname meaning "stream" and "brook" in both languages, as well as "ditch" in Finnish. As of 2019, there were 1,891 people with the surname in Estonia: 926 men and 965 women. Oja is ranked as the 15th most common surname in Estonia. [1] People bearing the surname Oja include:

As a given name

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References

  1. ↑ Nimede statistika. Oja. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
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