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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 293,509 of them was named Aj, which outranked 23.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,483Zurisaday7
- #13,483Zyara7
- #13,483Zyrielle7
- #14,962Aj6
- #14,962Aadhira6
- #14,962Aahna6
- #14,962Aalyssa6
- #16,869Aabha5
- #16,869Aadi5
- #16,869Aadison5
Tied with 1,906 names at #14,962; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 22,058 of them was named Aj, which outranked 87.8% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,729Salman87
- #1,729Stuart87
- #1,729Wesson87
- #1,742Aj86
- #1,742Abhinav86
- #1,742Cartier86
- #1,742Graydon86
- #1,756Aksel85
- #1,756Andrei85
- #1,756Ayman85
Tied with 13 names at #1,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.