Anja is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Anja is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Anja. In the SmartGenius ranking, Anja is #2,550 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anja.
In fact, the name Anja did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Anja seemed to be more popular than ever in 2002. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,577, 109 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Anja, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anja was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Anja a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,862 - with a total of 50 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Anja are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Anja is registered in 17 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Anja live in Minnesota, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 17,677 would turn around if you called the name Anja across Minnesota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Anja is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Anja and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anja, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anja
Anja
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
J
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
J
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anja sounds like this:
