Ajai
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 60.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 276since 1980
Ajai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,146 | 9 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | — | #10,994 | 6 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ajai! It came in at #6,250, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ajai is popular in 1994
No state had 5 or more boys named Ajai in 1994, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ajai
- 986 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,243)
- 2,544 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #8,243)
- 501 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 1999 at #5,656 (11 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 115,072 boys born in 2020 were named Ajai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,656 in 1999, was only 1 in 174,559 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.7% of all boys named Ajai (82) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,250 |
| 1990s | 49 | #5,656 (1999) | #7,387 |
| 2000s | 80 | #6,316 (2000) | #8,028 |
| 2010s | 82 | #6,703 (2018) | #8,361 |
| 2020s | 60 | #5,699 (2020) | #7,940 |
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.
Ajai in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 85,036 of them was named Ajai, which outranked 70.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,521Whitnie22
- #4,521Xandria22
- #4,521Yezenia22
- #4,687Ajai21
- #4,687Aaliya21
- #4,687Adia21
- #4,687Ahsley21
- #4,845Abilene20
- #4,845Acadia20
- #4,845Aditi20
Tied with 157 names at #4,687; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 322,005 of them was named Ajai, which outranked 24.2% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,968Zeyad7
- #6,968Zia7
- #6,968Zuberi7
- #7,770Ajai6
- #7,770Aadam6
- #7,770Aakeem6
- #7,770Aaliyah6
- #8,800Aarik5
- #8,800Aarren5
- #8,800Aashish5
Tied with 1,029 names at #7,770; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.