Ajay
Last seen for girls in 2013 at #16,547 · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 157 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,589since 1964
Ajay over time
Rank among boys' names. Ajay 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,230 | 63 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,418 | 57 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,097 | 70 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,938 | 80 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,770 | 90 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,778 | 85 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,917 | 77 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,553 | 108 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,530 | 107 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,754 | 88 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,434 | 119 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,334 | 130 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,297 | 133 |
| 2012 | — | #1,322 | 129 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,143 | 158 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,240 | 142 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,250 | 142 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,165 | 155 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,182 | 149 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,116 | 156 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,081 | 152 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,144 | 137 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,007 | 157 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,016 | 152 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,027 | 143 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,247 | 106 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,215 | 104 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,237 | 98 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,438 | 75 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,359 | 79 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,369 | 74 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,564 | 59 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,512 | 61 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,643 | 53 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,867 | 42 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,525 | 48 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,379 | 53 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,227 | 61 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,389 | 49 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,144 | 63 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,239 | 55 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,479 | 42 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,510 | 39 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,596 | 35 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,008 | 24 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,932 | 25 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,582 | 31 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,696 | 27 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,977 | 18 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ajay! It came in at #4,039, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1967, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ajay
- 188 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,230)
- 452 spots since 2020 (#1,778 → #2,230)
- 796 spots since 2015 (#1,434 → #2,230)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2003 at #1,007 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,021 boys born in 2011 were named Ajay (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,007 in 2003, was only 1 in 12,582 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all boys named Ajay (1,449) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57 | #1,977 (1969) | #3,038 |
| 1970s | 266 | #1,510 (1979) | #1,838 |
| 1980s | 489 | #1,144 (1984) | #1,435 |
| 1990s | 692 | #1,215 (1999) | #1,491 |
| 2000s | 1,449 | #1,007 (2003) | #1,124 |
| 2010s | 1,191 | #1,143 (2011) | #1,452 |
| 2020s | 445 | #1,770 (2021) | #2,039 |
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.
Ajay in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 350,949 of them was named Ajay, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 14,222 of them was named Ajay, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,291Sami134
- #1,291Treyvon134
- #1,291Vladimir134
- #1,297Ajay133
- #1,297Baron133
- #1,297Dezmond133
- #1,297Dwight133
- #1,305Alek132
- #1,305Alistair132
- #1,305Bernardo132
Tied with 7 names at #1,297; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.