Aja

Where Aja comes from

Aja hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #5,642 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #412
    491 babies named Aja — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Aja Volkman born
    American singer
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #867.
  5. 1988
    Aja Evans born
    American bobsledder
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aja Evans · American bobsledder, born 1988
  • Aja Volkman · American singer, born 1980
  • Aja Brown · American mayor, born 1982
  • Aja Monet · American poet, musician and writer, born 1987
  • Aja Kim · American singer-songwriter, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.