Aja means “of Magdala”, “torch”, “beautiful”, “light”, “bright” and “shining” (from Alena), “cold spring” in Sami, “east” in Afro-American” and “he-goat” or “she-goat” (from Sanskrit “aja/अज” or “ajā/अजा”). IN Greenland, Aja means “maternal aunt” and in Hebrew it means “hawk” or “buzzard” (from “ayá/אַיָּה”).