Meaning not yet researched.
Aja: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #412 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #412 in 1978; #3,461 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aja in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,461 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #412.
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Aja: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #412 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 491 (1978).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Aja, making it the 3,461st most common girls’ name of the year, down 853 places from #2,608 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 67 girls named Aja in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #412, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 491. For comparison, it was #2,237 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aja in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 7 babies. In all, 8,404 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,200 babies named Aja.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 694 US girls were named Aja; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Raya (8,008 babies since 1880), Aya (7,987 babies since 1880), Ajay (4,594 babies since 1880) and Ajah (1,481 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raja, Ajai and Aija are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, English and Sámi. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raja (1,240), Ajai (458), Aija (388), Aijah (358), Ajaya (155), Ahja (107), Ayjah (83), Aia (60), Ahjah (54), Ajae (51), Aeja (48), Eja (45), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aja in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,989 | 6 | #10,824 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2010 | 137 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2008 | 144 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 2007 | 159 | #1,468 | 6 | #10,965 |
| 2006 | 152 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,368 | 8 | #8,317 |
| 2004 | 194 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2003 | 209 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2002 | 226 | #977 | — | — |
| 2001 | 203 | #1,054 | 6 | #9,267 |
| 2000 | 228 | #939 | — | — |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1998 | 192 | #1,033 | 6 | #8,493 |
| 1997 | 206 | #956 | — | — |
| 1996 | 246 | #822 | — | — |
| 1995 | 232 | #843 | — | — |
| 1994 | 216 | #888 | — | — |
| 1993 | 207 | #920 | — | — |
| 1992 | 200 | #961 | — | — |
| 1991 | 230 | #868 | — | — |
| 1990 | 202 | #939 | — | — |
| 1989 | 200 | #908 | 5 | #7,930 |
| 1988 | 203 | #868 | — | — |
| 1987 | 158 | #993 | 6 | #6,101 |
| 1986 | 181 | #900 | — | — |
| 1985 | 160 | #963 | 7 | #5,161 |
| 1984 | 175 | #867 | 6 | #5,578 |
| 1983 | 249 | #681 | — | — |
| 1982 | 263 | #674 | — | — |
| 1981 | 261 | #668 | 6 | #5,487 |
| 1980 | 311 | #597 | 9 | #4,141 |
| 1979 | 362 | #526 | — | — |
| 1978 | 491 | #412 | 19 | #2,376 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,569 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,463 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,646 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).