Aj
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #8,406 · #1,932 for boys in 2025, 80 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 42 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,456since 1961
Aj over time
Rank among boys' names. Aj has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,932 | 80 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,188 | 65 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,981 | 77 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,915 | 79 | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | — | #2,170 | 65 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,901 | 78 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,871 | 78 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,863 | 80 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | — | #1,781 | 84 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,278 | 56 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,866 | 75 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | — | #2,143 | 63 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,838 | 79 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,943 | 69 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,922 | 66 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,125 | 50 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,277 | 44 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,222 | 44 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,199 | 42 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,017 | 26 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,311 | 36 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,380 | 33 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,219 | 36 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,253 | 33 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,245 | 30 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,849 | 36 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,565 | 42 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,946 | 13 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
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| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aj! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aj
- 413 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #1,932)
- 37 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #1,932)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #1,932)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1985 at #1,544 (42 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,351 boys born in 2025 were named Aj (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,544 in 1985, was only 1 in 44,005 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.9% of all boys named Aj (735) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32 | #2,576 (1968) | #3,310 |
| 1970s | 67 | #2,946 (1976) | #4,022 |
| 1980s | 274 | #1,544 (1985) | #2,448 |
| 1990s | 309 | #2,199 (1999) | #2,523 |
| 2000s | 600 | #1,838 (2008) | #2,050 |
| 2010s | 735 | #1,742 (2012) | #1,964 |
| 2020s | 439 | #1,895 (2020) | #2,043 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aj in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 355,519 of them was named Aj, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,849 names at #16,992; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 31,978 of them was named Aj, which outranked 84.7% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,169Quadir61
- #2,169Rehan61
- #2,169Wendell61
- #2,187Aj60
- #2,187Ambrose60
- #2,187Ashten60
- #2,187Breyden60
- #2,212Bennie59
- #2,212Blayze59
- #2,212Braidyn59
Tied with 24 names at #2,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.