Ajani
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 89.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,241since 1974
Ajani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,145 | 67 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,665 | 103 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,700 | 96 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | — | #2,493 | 51 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | — | #2,641 | 46 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,278 | 56 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | — | #2,232 | 58 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,144 | 62 |
| 2009 | — | #1,809 | 82 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,620 | 96 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,552 | 101 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #1,479 | 103 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,573 | 88 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #1,343 | 109 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #1,341 | 102 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #1,384 | 95 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #1,782 | 61 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,999 | 22 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ajani! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ajani is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,094 · 1 in 22,203
Best ever in a state: #447 in Massachusetts, 2006.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 22,203 |
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See more about Ajani
- 67 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,145)
- 472 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,145)
- 496 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2003 at #1,341 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,952 boys born in 2022 were named Ajani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,341 in 2003, was only 1 in 19,366 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.7% of all boys named Ajani (913) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 48 | #2,897 (1979) | #3,804 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,282 (1982) | #4,662 |
| 1990s | 239 | #2,201 (1997) | #3,170 |
| 2000s | 913 | #1,341 (2003) | #1,546 |
| 2010s | 493 | #2,144 (2010) | #2,580 |
| 2020s | 473 | #1,665 (2022) | #2,006 |
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.
Ajani in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 267,545 of them was named Ajani, which outranked 24.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,061Yuko7
- #8,061Zenovia7
- #8,061Zonia7
- #9,010Ajani6
- #9,010Aarica6
- #9,010Aba6
- #9,010Abel6
- #10,210Abeer5
- #10,210Abria5
- #10,210Adah5
Tied with 1,199 names at #9,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 114,769 of them was named Ajani, which outranked 59.0% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,777Zebediah16
- #2,777Zebulan16
- #2,777Zvi16
- #2,897Ajani15
- #2,897Adel15
- #2,897Alexandros15
- #2,897Alford15
- #3,018Albino14
- #3,018Alok14
- #3,018Amiel14
Tied with 120 names at #2,897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.