Anja
Anja is a girl name of Serbian origin, meaning Grace and favor.
What Anja means
Grace and favor.
Anja is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Anja comes from
Serbian names come from the Slavic tradition, often built on roots meaning peace, glory, or love, and frequently ending in the familiar Slavic suffixes.
Anja is recorded as Serbian in origin. Browse other Serbian names.
How popular is Anja?
Anja is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Anja is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Anja
The thread we file Anja under is grace and gentleness — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Grace
Names like Anja
These share Anja's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Milica — Gentle and gracious.
- Snezana — Snowy; pure as snow.
- Milan — Gracious, dear and loving.
- Annika — Grace, favor.
- Anouk — Grace, favor.
- Anya — Grace, favor.
- Agatha — Good and honourable.
- Aifric — Pleasant and agreeable.
- Aimi — Beauty.
- Aino — The only one.
- Akami — Beauty.
- Amara — Grace; God's grace.