The name of the day: Baya
Origin of the first name
The first name Baya means "noble, distinguished" in Turkish. This first name is carried by nearly 1,000 people in France and remains little attributed today. Moreover it should be attributed to less than 30 babies in 2013.
History
We find mainly this first name in the Maghreb countries like Algeria and Morocco, where it became very popular. Baya was often attributed to artists. For example, in the 1950s, Baya was a painter known for his naive paintings. Born in 1931 in Algiers, she becomes an orphan at the age of five and is collected by a French family. Thereafter she began to paint and draw plants, animals and various elements and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers devoted a retrospective in 1963. She died in 1998, following a long illness.
Character
Baya is a girl who always knows how to adapt and listen to people. In her personal life she is faithful to both love and friendship. At work Baya is intuitive smart and logical.
