Entry № 11048 · Greek origin

Vaia Vaia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Palm Sunday (Holy Week)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Greek)

A name that means "palm sunday (holy week)".

Vaia is from the Modern Greek Βάϊα (Váïa — palm branches) — from Greek vaion (palm-frond). Vaia is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek Orthodox heritage. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Palm Sunday (Greek). Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

The name in its native script.

Βάϊα
Transliteration
Váïa
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vaia stands.

Vaia 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.

Vaias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kyriaki ton Vaion / Palm Sunday
Greek Orthodox feast day + Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem + John 12:12-19 + Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! + Holy Week + Vai Beach Crete famous palm forest.
Greek Orthodox tradition

Names connected to Vaia.

The number behind Vaia.

6

The Nurturer

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