Ajah
Ajah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,904 among girls’ names; 1,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Ajah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ajah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ajah?
#7,904 among girls’ names, 2025
Ajah fell from #4,295 in 2015 to #7,904 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 8.1 per million.
97 babies in 1999, the peak
Ajah peaked in 1999, when 97 girls were given it, #1,687 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,904 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,576 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,644 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,635 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,263 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,171 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,912 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,256 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,922 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,130 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,295 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,659 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,648 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,114 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,727 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,310 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,362 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,419 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,428 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,817 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,863 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,323 | 40.3 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,462 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,670 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,256 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,118 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,687 | 54.7 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,024 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,620 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,555 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,252 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,346 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,523 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,400 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,463 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,288 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,322 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,787 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,927 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,164 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,057 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,235 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,438 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,421 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,024 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,573 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ajah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ajah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ajah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ajah, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,481 Americans ever recorded as Ajah. The median Ajah alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,155 people named Ajah (1,122 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 917 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,845 babies since 1880, Ajah is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 57 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ajah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ajah and names like it
- Compare Ajah and AjaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAjah peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ajah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Ajah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ajah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.