Entry № 5132 · Estonian origin

Kaja Kaja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Estonian
Meaning
"Echo / pure (Kaja Kallas, Estonian PM + EU foreign affairs chief)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Estonian)

A name that means "echo / pure (kaja kallas, estonian pm + eu foreign affairs chief)".

Kaja is the Estonian word for "echo, reflection" — also the Scandinavian short form of Katarina (Catherine, "pure"). Reform Party leader 2018-2024.

Echo / pure.

The name in its native script.

Kaja
Transliteration
Kaja
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.jɑ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kaja stands.

Kaja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kajas before her.

Real people
Kaja Kallas
Estonian PM; EU foreign affairs chief.
born 1977
In fiction
Kaja
Various Estonian literature.

Names connected to Kaja.

The number behind Kaja.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kaja reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.