Ajax

#3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births

Peak · boys
2023 · 45 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
452
since 2005

Ajax over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ajax has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202022boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,24036
2024#3,69330
2023#2,80545
2022#3,77429
2021#4,36223
2020#4,14124
2019#4,63921
2018#3,60730
2017#3,78128
2016#3,35833
2015#5,28917
2014#4,53821
2013#4,98118
2012#4,68620
2011#5,20017
2010#5,04718
2009#6,80212
2008#8,3249
2007#8,9158
2006#10,6626
2005#9,1157
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First appearance
2005

The first year at least five boys were named Ajax! It came in at #9,115, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2005–2008, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.

Where Ajax is popular in 2022

No state had 5 or more boys named Ajax in 2022, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ajax
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 453 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #3,240)
  • 901 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #3,240)
  • 2,049 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2005
  • Peaked 2023 at #2,805 (45 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,013
  • Highest: 1 in 38,013 boys born in 2023 were named Ajax (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 49.3% of all boys named Ajax (223) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s42#6,802 (2009)#8,764
2010s223#3,358 (2016)#4,513
2020s187#2,805 (2023)#3,669

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.

Ajax in 2022

boys
#3,774
29 births · 1 in 60,207 boys

Top boys' names in 2022

  1. #1Liam20,579
  2. #2Noah18,758
  3. #3Oliver15,176
  4. #4James12,119
  5. #5Elijah12,094
  6. #6William11,356
  7. #7Henry11,272
  8. #8Lucas10,973
  9. #9Benjamin10,912
  10. #10Theodore10,824
  11. #3,774Ajax29
More about 2022

boys

1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 60,207 of them was named Ajax, which outranked 73.7% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ajax
  1. #3,691Xzavion30
  2. #3,691Yadier30
  3. #3,691Zayvier30
  4. #3,774Ajax29
  5. #3,774Alexandros29
  6. #3,774Andersen29
  7. #3,774Artin29
  8. #3,879Adonay28
  9. #3,879Akshar28
  10. #3,879Aleksandar28

Tied with 104 names at #3,774; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. ↑ 988Dutton#1,823 → #835
  2. ↑ 489Kayce#1,076 → #587
  3. ↑ 412Chosen#1,307 → #895
  4. ↑ 396Khaza#1,230 → #834
  5. ↑ 348Eithan#849 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 324Jacoby#885 → #1,209
  2. ↓ 243Turner#937 → #1,180
  3. ↓ 233Aydin#897 → #1,130
  4. ↓ 218Juelz#991 → #1,209
  5. ↓ 216Jamal#868 → #1,084

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2022 →