Naja is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Recently, the name Naja has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Naja. That means that a girl named Naja is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Naja.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Naja. Girls named Naja have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,144 Naja ranked higher than ever before in 1998. By comparison, there have been 92 years in which the first name Naja has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2020. In general, parents name their daughters Naja only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Naja was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Naja continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Naja that year, ranking #9,013 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Naja, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Naja 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 Naja is registered in 17 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Naja live in Pennsylvania, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 125,087 would turn around if you called the name Naja across Pennsylvania.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Naja 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Naja 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 Naja, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Naja
Naja
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
A
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.
N
A
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. Naja sounds like this:
