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Najanaaq Najanaaq — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-yah-NAHK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Younger sister"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kalaallisut)

A name that means "younger sister".

Najanaaq is from the Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) Najanaaq — younger sister. Najanaaq is one of the Greenlandic feminine names — central to traditional Greenlandic Indigenous Eskimo-Aleut heritage.

Younger sister (Greenlandic Inuit-Kalaallisut).

The name in its native script.

Najanaaq
Transliteration
Najanaaq
Pronunciation
/ nɑː.jəˈnɑːk /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Najanaaq stands.

Najanaaq 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.

Najanaaqs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Najanaaq
Greenlandic younger sister.

Names connected to Najanaaq.

The number behind Najanaaq.

5

The Seeker

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