Entry № 330 · Sanskrit origin

Aja Aja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-zhah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Steely Dan Aja - 1977 album"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "steely dan aja - 1977 album".

Aja is from the Sanskrit aja (अजा — unborn, primordial) — also used as Yoruba feminine name + English adopted spelling of Asian-American name. The album cover features Japanese model Sayoko Yamaguchi.

Sanskrit primordial / Steely Dan.

The name in its native script.

अजा
Transliteration
Aja
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.ʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aja stands.

Aja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ajas before her.

Real people
Aja Naomi King
African-American actress + How to Get Away with Murder.
born 1985
In fiction
Aja (Steely Dan)
Steely Dan album 1977.
1977

Names connected to Aja.

The number behind Aja.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aja reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.