Ajā

Ajā (अजा, IAST: Ajā) is an Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “The unborn; the eternal one beyond birth and death”. From a- (not) and jan/jā (born, arising), Ajā declares that Lalitā is utterly uncreated and unborn — she precedes and encompasses every cycle of origination, standing as the eternal source from which all else arises.

Meaning, etymology & significance

The root jan means to be born or to come into being, and the feminine form jā carries this sense of arising. The prefix a- negates it entirely, producing a name of profound theological weight: the Goddess is not subject to the cycle of birth that governs all conditioned existence. She is Prakṛti in her primordial aspect — the eternal, unmanifest ground that was never born and will never cease.

Ajā appears as a name for both the Supreme Goddess and for primordial nature in the Upaniṣads and Purāṇas, making it one of the most philosophically resonant single-syllable names in the tradition. Pronounced ah-jaa, it is simple, elegant, and timelessly meaningful as a girl's name.

Scriptural source

Ajā appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Ajā aligns with the Krittika nakshatra, under the Mesha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 2.