Aja
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775
Given to girls 98.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 491 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,314since 1968
Aja over time
Rank among girls' names. Aja has never cracked the top 400 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 | #3,459 | 44 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,818 | 60 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,238 | 82 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #2,667 | 65 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,469 | 152 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,590 | 137 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,676 | 133 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,583 | 144 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,468 | 159 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #1,462 | 152 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,367 | 158 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #1,167 | 194 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,067 | 209 | — | |
| 2002 | #977 | 226 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,054 | 203 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #939 | 228 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,047 | 194 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,033 | 192 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #956 | 206 | — | |
| 1996 | #822 | 246 | — | |
| 1995 | #842 | 232 | — | |
| 1994 | #888 | 216 | — | |
| 1993 | #920 | 207 | — | |
| 1992 | #961 | 200 | — | |
| 1991 | #868 | 230 | — | |
| 1990 | #939 | 202 | — | |
| 1989 | #908 | 200 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #868 | 203 | — | |
| 1987 | #993 | 158 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #900 | 181 | — | |
| 1985 | #963 | 160 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #867 | 175 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #681 | 249 | — | |
| 1982 | #674 | 263 | — | |
| 1981 | #668 | 261 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #597 | 311 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #526 | 362 | — | |
| 1978 | #412 | 491 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
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| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
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| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aja! It came in at #5,642, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Aja is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#495 · 1 in 3,634
- New Jersey#505 · 1 in 3,961
- Pennsylvania#579 · 1 in 5,325
- Missouri#638 · 1 in 6,249
- Georgia#639 · 1 in 5,599
Best ever in a state: #139 in Delaware, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #495 | 5 | 1 in 3,634 |
| New Jersey | #505 | 11 | 1 in 3,961 |
| Pennsylvania | #579 | 13 | 1 in 5,325 |
| Missouri | #638 | 5 | 1 in 6,249 |
| Georgia | #639 | 7 | 1 in 5,599 |
| Ohio | #649 | 10 | 1 in 6,771 |
| California | #789 | 32 | 1 in 6,722 |
| Illinois | #853 | 9 | 1 in 8,064 |
| New York | #971 | 12 | 1 in 9,322 |
| Michigan | #981 | 5 | 1 in 11,594 |
| Texas | #1,514 | 7 | 1 in 18,410 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Aja
- 852 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #3,459)
- 1,425 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #3,459)
- 1,223 spots since 2015 (#2,236 → #3,459)
- Biggest jump: 4,240 spots in 1978 (#4,652 → #412)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 1984 (#681 → #867)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1978 at #412 (491 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1978–1997
- Highest: 1 in 3,120 girls born in 1978 were named Aja (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.0% of all girls named Aja (2,161) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #5,456 (1969) | #5,549 |
| 1970s | 874 | #412 (1978) | #3,037 |
| 1980s | 2,161 | #597 (1980) | #812 |
| 1990s | 2,125 | #822 (1996) | #928 |
| 2000s | 1,806 | #939 (2000) | #1,276 |
| 2010s | 952 | #1,469 (2011) | #2,124 |
| 2020s | 381 | #2,034 (2020) | #2,767 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aja in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 11,004 of them was named Aja, which outranked 92.5% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 311,164 of them was named Aja, which outranked 25.3% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).