Ajay
Last seen for girls in 2013 at #16,547 · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 157 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,589since 1964
Ajay over time
Rank among boys' names. Ajay 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,230 | 63 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,418 | 57 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,097 | 70 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,938 | 80 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,770 | 90 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,778 | 85 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,917 | 77 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,553 | 108 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,530 | 107 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,754 | 88 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,434 | 119 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,334 | 130 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,297 | 133 |
| 2012 | — | #1,322 | 129 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,143 | 158 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,240 | 142 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,250 | 142 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,165 | 155 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,182 | 149 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,116 | 156 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,081 | 152 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,144 | 137 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,007 | 157 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,016 | 152 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,027 | 143 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,247 | 106 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,215 | 104 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,237 | 98 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,438 | 75 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,359 | 79 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,369 | 74 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,564 | 59 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,512 | 61 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,643 | 53 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,867 | 42 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,525 | 48 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,379 | 53 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,227 | 61 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,389 | 49 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,144 | 63 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,239 | 55 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,479 | 42 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,510 | 39 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,596 | 35 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,008 | 24 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,932 | 25 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,582 | 31 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,696 | 27 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,977 | 18 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ajay! It came in at #4,039, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1967, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Ajay is popular in 1983
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#518 · 1 in 7,312
- Illinois#628 · 1 in 9,085
- California#856 · 1 in 15,916
- New York#1,118 · 1 in 23,340
Best ever in a state: #399 in Iowa, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #518 | 6 | 1 in 7,312 |
| Illinois | #628 | 9 | 1 in 9,085 |
| California | #856 | 13 | 1 in 15,916 |
| New York | #1,118 | 5 | 1 in 23,340 |
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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 Ajay
- 188 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,230)
- 452 spots since 2020 (#1,778 → #2,230)
- 796 spots since 2015 (#1,434 → #2,230)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2003 at #1,007 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,021 boys born in 2011 were named Ajay (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,007 in 2003, was only 1 in 12,582 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all boys named Ajay (1,449) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57 | #1,977 (1969) | #3,038 |
| 1970s | 266 | #1,510 (1979) | #1,838 |
| 1980s | 489 | #1,144 (1984) | #1,435 |
| 1990s | 692 | #1,215 (1999) | #1,491 |
| 2000s | 1,449 | #1,007 (2003) | #1,124 |
| 2010s | 1,191 | #1,143 (2011) | #1,452 |
| 2020s | 445 | #1,770 (2021) | #2,039 |
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.
Ajay in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 32,592 of them was named Ajay, which outranked 83.1% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,222Terance56
- #1,222Tiffany56
- #1,222Viet56
- #1,239Ajay55
- #1,239Bjorn55
- #1,239Charley55
- #1,239Dashawn55
- #1,253Baby54
- #1,253Douglass54
- #1,253Duston54
Tied with 13 names at #1,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.