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 | ||
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| 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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,397 · 1 in 9,596
- Georgia#1,532 · 1 in 9,160
- Texas#2,652 · 1 in 23,253
Best ever in a state: #139 in Delaware, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,397 | 5 | 1 in 9,596 |
| Georgia | #1,532 | 5 | 1 in 9,160 |
| Texas | #2,652 | 7 | 1 in 23,253 |
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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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 26,887 of them was named Aja, which outranked 84.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,756Zaniah62
- #2,756Zaylah62
- #2,756Zoha62
- #2,792Aja61
- #2,792Amaiah61
- #2,792Amity61
- #2,792Antoinette61
- #2,821Aaira60
- #2,821Adalyne60
- #2,821Alize60
Tied with 28 names at #2,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.