Aj
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #8,406 · #1,932 for boys in 2025, 80 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 42 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,456since 1961
Aj over time
Rank among boys' names. Aj 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,932 | 80 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,188 | 65 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,981 | 77 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,915 | 79 | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | — | #2,170 | 65 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,901 | 78 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,871 | 78 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,863 | 80 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | — | #1,781 | 84 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,278 | 56 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,866 | 75 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | — | #2,143 | 63 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,838 | 79 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,943 | 69 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,922 | 66 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,125 | 50 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,277 | 44 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,222 | 44 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,199 | 42 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,017 | 26 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,311 | 36 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,380 | 33 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,219 | 36 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,253 | 33 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,245 | 30 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,849 | 36 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,565 | 42 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,946 | 13 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
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| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aj! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aj is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,087 · 1 in 48,664
Best ever in a state: #180 in Hawaii, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #2,087 | 5 | 1 in 48,664 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Aj
- 413 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #1,932)
- 37 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #1,932)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #1,932)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1985 at #1,544 (42 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,351 boys born in 2025 were named Aj (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,544 in 1985, was only 1 in 44,005 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.9% of all boys named Aj (735) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32 | #2,576 (1968) | #3,310 |
| 1970s | 67 | #2,946 (1976) | #4,022 |
| 1980s | 274 | #1,544 (1985) | #2,448 |
| 1990s | 309 | #2,199 (1999) | #2,523 |
| 2000s | 600 | #1,838 (2008) | #2,050 |
| 2010s | 735 | #1,742 (2012) | #1,964 |
| 2020s | 439 | #1,895 (2020) | #2,043 |
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.
Aj in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 73,514 of them was named Aj, which outranked 73.3% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,926Val27
- #2,926Wesly27
- #2,926Yitzchak27
- #3,017Aj26
- #3,017Amadeus26
- #3,017Anakin26
- #3,017Anil26
- #3,092Aamir25
- #3,092Aarion25
- #3,092Abran25
Tied with 74 names at #3,017; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.