Ajani
Ajani was given to 67 boys in 2025, #2,146 among boys’ names; 2,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Ajani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ajani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ajani?
#2,146 among boys’ names, 2025
Ajani rose from #2,642 in 2015 to #2,146 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 39.2 per million.
120 babies in 2004, the peak
Ajani peaked in 2004, when 120 babies were given it (109 boys, #1,341 among boys’ names). The 73 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,267 | 67 | #2,146 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,203 | 72 | #2,078 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,072 | 87 | #1,832 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,556 | 103 | #1,665 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,312 | 96 | #1,700 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,935 | 48 | #2,618 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,628 | 45 | #2,766 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,461 | 43 | #2,798 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 51 | #2,492 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,322 | 33 | #3,361 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 46 | #2,642 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,133 | 40 | #2,885 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,641 | 56 | #2,278 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,967 | 59 | #2,208 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 58 | #2,231 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,099 | 62 | #2,143 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 82 | #1,808 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,627 | 96 | #1,620 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,704 | 101 | #1,553 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,917 | 103 | #1,479 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,143 | 88 | #1,571 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,270 | 109 | #1,341 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,687 | 102 | #1,340 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,290 | 95 | #1,381 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,734 | 76 | #1,568 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,164 | 61 | #1,779 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,242 | 37 | #2,398 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,535 | 32 | #2,597 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,822 | 39 | #2,198 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,836 | 24 | #3,016 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,531 | 20 | #3,300 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 21 | #3,210 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 14 | #4,226 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 22 | #2,995 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 18 | #3,320 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,402 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 11 | #4,527 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 13 | #3,703 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,459 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,537 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,332 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 10 | #3,887 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,285 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,439 | 11 | #3,604 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,025 | 15 | #2,897 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,158 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,609 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 9 | #3,725 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,642 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ajani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,499 Americans recorded as Ajani, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 67 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ajani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ajani, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,499 Americans ever recorded as Ajani. The median Ajani alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,794 people named Ajani (206 women and girls, 1,588 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 214 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 874 |
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).
Where are babies named Ajani born?
The states with the most babies named Ajani are Florida, Texas and New York, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 14 | #958 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,291 | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | #1,769 | 2.7× |
| California | 5 | #2,482 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 5 | #852 | 0.1× |
Where Ajani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ajani is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ajani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,777 babies since 1880, Ajani is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 73 babies (100%), again the 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 Ajani
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 Ajani and names like it
- Compare Ajani and AjeneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAjani peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ajani since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Ajani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ajani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.