Ajene

Where Ajene comes from

Ajene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,054 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #3,386
    11 babies named Ajene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2005
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ajene hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.