Aja
[ˈɑːdʒə]Meaning
a given name in Arabic, Danish, Sami and other languages; also a surname
Background Story
A user-submitted entry records Aja as a given name in Near Eastern Mythology and in African American, Sami, Danish, Greenlandic, Indian, Latvian, Arabic, Guanche and Biblical German use, feminine in most of these and masculine in Indian, Guanche and Biblical German. It is also a surname, and as a given name it is sometimes rendered A'ja.
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