Maja (given name)
Encyclopedia
Maja is a feminine given name.
It can be used as a short form of Maria or Mary
in Europe
(Germany
, Scandinavian countries
, Poland
, Slovenia
, Croatia
, Serbia
, Macedonia
).
It can be used as a different spelling of Maya
.
It can be used as a short form of Maria or Mary
Mary (given name)
Mary is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam.The usual meaning given by various...
in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
(Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Scandinavian countries
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
).
It can be used as a different spelling of Maya
Maya (given name)
Maya is a feminine name with multiple meanings. In Hindu philosophy, Māyā means "illusion" and in Hindu mythology, it is also an alternate name of the Hindu goddess Durga. According to tradition, Queen Māyā of Sakya was also the name of the mother of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha...
.
Notable persons with the name
- Maja AlmMaja AlmMaja Alm is a Danish orienteering competitor and medalist from the Junior World Championships. She is since 2006 coached by Danish national coach Lars Lindstrøm-Junior career:...
, Danish athlete - Maja ApostoloskaMaja ApostoloskaMaja Apostoloska is an award-winning Macedonian poetess, essayist and literary critic. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the "Blaže Koneski" Faculty of Philology in Skopje, where she is currently attending Macedonian language postgraduate studies. She is an editor of literary...
, Macedonian writer - Maja BerezowskaMaja BerezowskaMaja Berezowska was a Polish painter.From 1933 to 1936 she lived in Paris and worked with magazines such as "Le Figaro", "Le Rire" and "Ici Paris". She made a few caricature cartoons of Adolf Hitler which resulted in the official protest of the German Embassy in Paris, which sued Berezowska...
, Polish painter - Maja BlagdanMaja BlagdanMaja Blagdan is a Croatian pop singer.She began her singing career in a rock band, Stijene, in 1986.Later she had a solo career. Her first solo album was released in 1993....
, Croatian singer - Maja BogdanovićMaja BogdanovicMaja Bogdanović is a Paris based cellistAfter having won, last October, the Safran Foundation Prize, the Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovic gave a recital at the Carnegie Hall...
, Serbian-French cellist - Maja CvjetkovićMaja CvjetkovićMaja Cvjetković is a Croatian model. She was Miss Croatia in 2005.-References:...
, Croatian model - Maja Einstein, Sister and lifelong friend of Albert Einstein
- Maja HillMaja HillMaja Dzartovska Hill is a Macedonian artist.Maja was born in Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia where she lived with her sister Olja and father Stefan and mother Lilijana . She paints mostly in oil but is also known for work in mosaics and fresco...
, Macedonian artist - Maja GojkovićMaja GojkovicMaja Gojković is the previous mayor of the city of Novi Sad, capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in Serbia and a councillor in the Parliament of Novi Sad as a representative of the People's Party, previously also known as the "Grupa građana - Maja Gojković"...
, Serbian politician - Maja GrønbækMaja GrønbækMaja Grønbæk is a Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.-References:...
, Danish handball player - Maja HugMaja HugMaja Hug is a Swiss figure skater. She is a six-time Swiss national champion. She represented Switzerland at the 1948 Winter Olympics where she placed 15th....
, Swiss figure skater - Maja IvarssonMaja IvarssonMaja Ivarsson, is a Swedish singer and lead vocalist of the Swedish New Wave band The Sounds.-Career:The Sounds were formed in 1998 in Helsingborg, by childhood friends guitarist and vocalist Felix Rodriguez and bassist Johan Bengtsson, who later invited drummer Fredrik Nilsson on board...
, Swedish singer - Maja KersnikMaja KersnikMaja Kersnik is a female badminton player from Slovenia.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships and reached the second round . In her home country she won 5 titles at the Slovenian National Badminton Championships.-References:**...
, Slovenian badminton player - Maja KomorowskaMaja KomorowskaMaja Komorowska is a Polish film actress. She has appeared in 35 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* Family Life * A Woman's Decision * Budapest Tales * Spiral...
, Polish actress - Maja LatinovićMaja LatinovicMaja Latinović is a Serbian model.At 16, Latinović's modeling career began accidentally with her sister entering her into a local modeling contest...
, Serbian model - Maja Lidia KossakowskaMaja Lidia KossakowskaMaja Lidia Kossakowska is a Polish fantasy writer whose first publication was in 1997. She was nominated eight times for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award for her short stories and novels, and received it in 2007 for the short story Smok tańczy dla Chung Fonga. She has also received several other awards....
, Poblish writer - Maja MarijanaMaja MarijanaMaja Marijana or Marijana Radovanović, born 9 November 1972 in Novi Sad, Serbia, is a popular pop-folk singer who has considerable success in former Yugoslav countries. She has made eleven albums since she started singing in 1992....
, Serbian singer - Maja MatevžičMaja MatevzicMaja Matevžič is a former professional WTA tennis player from Slovenia. Both her most recent WTA singles and WTA doubles matches were played on 21 August 2005 at Toronto. According to a user on , a news report said she is working on a return.Maja retired because of the injuries in September 2006...
, Slovenian tennis player - Maja Mendrila, Croatian writer
- Maja NekićMaja NekicMaja Nekić is a Croatian actressGratuated in Zagreb Akademija Dramskih Umjetnosti .- Filmography :* "Kad zvoni?" TV Series ... Nina* "Zabranjena ljubav" TV Series .....
, Croatian actress - Maja OgnjenovićMaja OgnjenovicMaja Ognjenović is a female volleyball player from Serbia, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg...
, Serbian volleyball player - Maja OstaszewskaMaja OstaszewskaMaja Ostaszewska is a Polish actress.She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski of Ostoja coat of arms. She started her acting training in her native Kraków and later graduated from PWST, in 1996...
, Polish actress - Maja PoljakMaja PoljakMaja Poljak is a Croatian volleyball player. She plays as middle blocker for Eczacıbaşı VitrA. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 1999 European Championship in Italy.-Career:...
, Croatian volleyball player - Maja RatkjeMaja RatkjeMaja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, born 29 December 1973 in Trondheim, is a Norwegian vocalist and composer. She performs and releases music for concerts, recordings, films, installations, theatre, dance and other performances. Maja is a member of SPUNK, a Norwegian improv group, and Agrare, a...
, Norwegian musician - Maja RefsumMaja RefsumMaja Refsum was a Norwegian sculptor and teacher. Daughter of Harald Refsum and Hanna Ovidia Yssen . Among her most important works is her sculpture of writer Amalie Skram. She is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the terracotta sculpture Bruden pyntes...
, Norwegian sculptor - Maja SalvadorMaja SalvadorMaja Ross Andres Salvador is one of the latest in line of the showbiz clan of the Salvador family. She is currently under the management of ABS-CBN, and a membser of Star Magic.-Early life:...
, Filipino actress - Maja SavićMaja SavicMaja Savić is a handball player, currently playing for ŽRK Budućnost T-Mobile, to where she came from Viborg HK. She plays on the left wing position, and was member of ŽRK Budućnost T-Mobile and Slagelse Dream Team .Maja Savić played for the national teams of FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro...
, Montenegrin handball player - Maja SimanićMaja SimanicMaja Simanić is a female volleyball player from Serbia, playing as a setter. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. At the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship she claimed the bronze medal with...
, Serbian volleyball player - Maja TatićMaja TaticMaja Tatić is a Serbian singer. She is most notable for representing Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest....
, Serbian singer - Maja TrochimczykMaja TrochimczykMaja Trochimczyk is a Californian music historian, writer and poet of Polish descent...
, Polish-American writer - Maja Włoszczowska, Polish mountain biker