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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 134,712 of them was named Aj, which outranked 52.0% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,969Zula13
- #7,969Zurielle13
- #7,969Zyasia13
- #8,406Aj12
- #8,406Aafiyah12
- #8,406Aaiza12
- #8,406Aalaya12
- #8,953Aahna11
- #8,953Aaryah11
- #8,953Aaryana11
Tied with 546 names at #8,406; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 22,129 of them was named Aj, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,872Theodor79
- #1,872Uziel79
- #1,872Yuvan79
- #1,895Aj78
- #1,895Abdulrahman78
- #1,895Arin78
- #1,895Darell78
- #1,911Aedan77
- #1,911Aharon77
- #1,911Arvin77
Tied with 15 names at #1,895; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.