Meaning not yet researched.
Ajay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,007 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,007 in 2003; #2,230 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ajay in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,230 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,007.
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Ajay: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,007 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 158 (2011).
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Ajay, making it the 2,230th most common boys’ name of the year, up 190 places from #2,420 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 57 boys named Ajay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,007, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 158, in 2011. For comparison, it was #1,434 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ajay in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 4,594 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,449 babies named Ajay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 825 US boys were named Ajay; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,112 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ajay ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,481 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aja (8,404 babies since 1880) and Ajah (1,481 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ajayah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ajayah (5).
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 Ajay in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,481 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,692 | #911 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,762 | #1,538 |
| New York | 5 | #1,770 | #1,244 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 63 | #2,230 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,420 |
| 2023 | — | — | 70 | #2,098 |
| 2022 | — | — | 80 | #1,938 |
| 2021 | — | — | 90 | #1,770 |
| 2020 | — | — | 85 | #1,778 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,917 |
| 2018 | — | — | 108 | #1,553 |
| 2017 | — | — | 107 | #1,530 |
| 2016 | — | — | 88 | #1,754 |
| 2015 | — | — | 119 | #1,434 |
| 2014 | — | — | 130 | #1,334 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,647 | 133 | #1,297 |
| 2012 | — | — | 129 | #1,322 |
| 2011 | — | — | 158 | #1,143 |
| 2010 | — | — | 142 | #1,240 |
| 2009 | — | — | 142 | #1,250 |
| 2008 | — | — | 155 | #1,165 |
| 2007 | — | — | 149 | #1,182 |
| 2006 | — | — | 156 | #1,117 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,081 |
| 2004 | — | — | 137 | #1,144 |
| 2003 | — | — | 157 | #1,007 |
| 2002 | — | — | 152 | #1,016 |
| 2001 | — | — | 143 | #1,027 |
| 2000 | — | — | 106 | #1,247 |
| 1999 | — | — | 104 | #1,215 |
| 1998 | — | — | 98 | #1,238 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,438 |
| 1996 | — | — | 79 | #1,359 |
| 1995 | — | — | 74 | #1,369 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,564 |
| 1993 | — | — | 61 | #1,512 |
| 1992 | — | — | 53 | #1,643 |
| 1991 | — | — | 42 | #1,867 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,702 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,679 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,526 |
| 1987 | — | — | 53 | #1,379 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,228 |
| 1985 | — | — | 49 | #1,389 |
| 1984 | — | — | 63 | #1,144 |
| 1983 | — | — | 55 | #1,239 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,565 |
| 1981 | — | — | 42 | #1,479 |
| 1980 | — | — | 33 | #1,727 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,510 |
| 1978 | — | — | 35 | #1,597 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,008 |
| 1976 | — | — | 25 | #1,932 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,704 |
| 1974 | — | — | 31 | #1,582 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,696 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,081 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,279 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #1,989 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #1,978 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,233 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,541 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,249 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,048 |
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).