en Oja (surname)

Oja
	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 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:

Andres Oja (drummer) [et], (born 1958), Estonian drummer
Andres Oja (actor) [et], (born 1983), Estonian actor
Bruno O'Ya (born Bruno Oja; 1933–2002), Estonian-Polish actor
Dagmar Oja (born 1981), Estonian singer
Eduard Oja (1905–1950), Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic
Erkki Oja (born 1948), Finnish computer scientist
Eve Oja (1948–2019), Estonian mathematician
Hannu Oja (born 1950), Finnish statistician
Heikki Oja (born 1945), Finnish astronomer and writer
Kristjan Oja (born 1968) Estonian biathlete
Pääru Oja (born 1989), Estonian actor
Peeter Oja (born 1960), Estonian actor, singer, comedian and media personality
Regina Oja (born 1996), Estonian biathlete
Rein Oja (born 1956), Estonian actor
Silva Oja (born 1961), Estonian heptathlete
Tarmo Oja (1934–2024), Estonian-Swedish astronomer
Tasuja Oja (1888–1946), Estonian politician and civil servant
Tõnu Oja (born 1958), Estonian actor

As a given name

Oja Kodar (born 1941), Croatian actress, screenwriter and director

References

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

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[1] Nimede statistika. Oja. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.

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