Entry № 7150 · Other origin

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
Grammatical form

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

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.