Entry № 10355 · Swahili origin

Taraja Taraja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-RAH-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Hope, expectation"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "hope, expectation".

Taraja means hope and expectation — the bright looking-forward to good things. It carries optimism and warmth.

Hope, expectation — a Swahili name.

The name in its native script.

Taraja
Transliteration
Taraja
Pronunciation
/ taˈɾa.dʒa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Taraja stands.

Taraja 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.

Tarajas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Taraja.

The number behind Taraja.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Taraja reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.