Aja is a ♀ girl name and a ♂ boy name. That makes Aja one of the gender-neutral unisex names.
The name Aja has a lot of origins. It is e.g. a Czech short form of Alena and an Afro-American, Sami or Greenlandic girl’s name, but also an Indian unisex name. Besides, Aja is a variant of the Hebrew boy’s name Ajah.
Aja is a palindrome name, it can be spelled the same way forward or backward.
Aja means “of Magdala”, “torch”, “beautiful”, “light”, “bright” and “shining” (from Alena), “cold spring” in Sami, “east” in Afro-American” and “he-goat” or “she-goat” (from Sanskrit “aja/अज” or “ajā/अजा”). IN Greenland, Aja means “maternal aunt” and in Hebrew it means “hawk” or “buzzard” (from “ayá/אַיָּה”).
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