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Oja (surname)

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

Oja is an Estonian and Finnish surname of Laine type 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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  • Oja Kodar (born 1941), Croatian actress, screenwriter and director

References

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