Ajani
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 89.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,241since 1974
Ajani 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,145 | 67 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,665 | 103 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,700 | 96 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | — | #2,493 | 51 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | — | #2,641 | 46 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,278 | 56 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | — | #2,232 | 58 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,144 | 62 |
| 2009 | — | #1,809 | 82 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,620 | 96 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,552 | 101 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #1,479 | 103 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,573 | 88 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #1,343 | 109 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #1,341 | 102 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #1,384 | 95 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #1,782 | 61 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,999 | 22 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,601 | 11 |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ajani! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ajani
- 67 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,145)
- 472 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,145)
- 496 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2003 at #1,341 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,952 boys born in 2022 were named Ajani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,341 in 2003, was only 1 in 19,366 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.7% of all boys named Ajani (913) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 48 | #2,897 (1979) | #3,804 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,282 (1982) | #4,662 |
| 1990s | 239 | #2,201 (1997) | #3,170 |
| 2000s | 913 | #1,341 (2003) | #1,546 |
| 2010s | 493 | #2,144 (2010) | #2,580 |
| 2020s | 473 | #1,665 (2022) | #2,006 |
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.
Ajani in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 136,678 of them was named Ajani, which outranked 51.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,032Zolani13
- #8,032Zulay13
- #8,032Zyriah13
- #8,542Ajani12
- #8,542Aaila12
- #8,542Aamina12
- #8,542Aamiyah12
- #9,056Aakifah11
- #9,056Aalaya11
- #9,056Aariya11
Tied with 513 names at #8,542; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 16,952 of them was named Ajani, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,652Maverik104
- #1,652Ramses104
- #1,652Zavian104
- #1,665Ajani103
- #1,665Brewer103
- #1,665Izael103
- #1,665Kamron103
- #1,678Artist102
- #1,678Bryer102
- #1,678Carsen102
Tied with 12 names at #1,665; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.