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Uju Uju — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-joo /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Other

Meaning

"Precious / treasured"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "precious / treasured".

Uju is from Ụjụ.

Precious / treasured.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ụjụ

Transliteration: Ụjụ
Pronunciation: / ˈuː.dʒuː /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Uju stands.

Uju 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.

Namesakes

Ujus before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Uju Anya / Nri Kingdom

Igbo precious treasured + compound Obianuju one born into abundance + Nri Kingdom 948-1911 longest African monarchy + ~50 million Igbo speakers + Uju Anya Nigerian-American linguist

Igbo heritage

Names connected to Uju.

Numerology

The number behind Uju.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Uju reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.