Ajah
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 97 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,481since 1978
Ajah over time
Rank among girls' names. Ajah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 |
| 2009 | #3,361 | 49 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 |
| 2000 | #2,122 | 76 |
| 1999 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 1998 | #2,026 | 73 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ajah! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ajah
- 1,671 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #7,885)
- 2,717 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #7,885)
- 3,590 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1999 at #1,688 (97 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,287 girls born in 1999 were named Ajah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.1% of all girls named Ajah (608) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,786 |
| 1980s | 77 | #5,286 (1989) | #8,061 |
| 1990s | 400 | #1,688 (1999) | #3,747 |
| 2000s | 608 | #2,122 (2000) | #2,773 |
| 2010s | 294 | #3,723 (2011) | #4,795 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,168 (2020) | #7,522 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ajah in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
More about 2007
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1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 40,055 of them was named Ajah, which outranked 83.3% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,376Zahria49
- #3,376Zakia49
- #3,376Zowie49
- #3,428Ajah48
- #3,428Amera48
- #3,428Amoni48
- #3,428Analee48
- #3,482Agatha47
- #3,482Aliyana47
- #3,482Amalie47
Tied with 53 names at #3,428; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.