Ajay
Ajay was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,230 among boys’ names; 4,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,470 Americans named Ajay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ajay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ajay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ajay is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ajay?
#2,230 among boys’ names, 2025
Ajay fell from #1,434 in 2015 to #2,230 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 62.1 to 36.9 per million.
158 babies in 2011, the peak
Ajay peaked in 2011, when 158 boys were given it, #1,143 among boys’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,230 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,420 | 33.1 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,097 | 40.9 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,937 | 45.8 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,770 | 51.4 |
| 2020 | 85 | #1,778 | 49.2 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,917 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,553 | 59.5 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,530 | 57.8 |
| 2016 | 88 | #1,754 | 46.4 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,434 | 62.1 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,334 | 67.7 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,297 | 70.3 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,322 | 68.0 |
| 2011 | 158 | #1,143 | 83.2 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,240 | 74.0 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,250 | 71.6 |
| 2008 | 155 | #1,165 | 76.0 |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,182 | 71.8 |
| 2006 | 156 | #1,117 | 75.9 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,080 | 76.1 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,143 | 69.0 |
| 2003 | 157 | #1,006 | 79.5 |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,015 | 78.3 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,026 | 73.6 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,244 | 54.0 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,213 | 54.2 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,235 | 51.3 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,435 | 39.8 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,357 | 41.7 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,364 | 38.9 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,559 | 30.5 |
| 1993 | 61 | #1,507 | 31.1 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,638 | 26.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,861 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,697 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,674 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,521 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 53 | #1,377 | 28.4 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,227 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,388 | 26.5 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,143 | 34.9 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,239 | 30.7 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,564 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,478 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,727 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 39 | #1,510 | 22.7 |
| 1978 | 35 | #1,597 | 21.3 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,008 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,931 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,703 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,582 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,696 | 17.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,081 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,278 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 20 | #1,988 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,977 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,200 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,232 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,540 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,248 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ajay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ajay has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ajay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ajay, and how old are they?
4,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,594 Americans ever recorded as Ajay. The median Ajay alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 8,870 people named Ajay (96 women and girls, 8,774 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,083 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 315 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 829 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,200 |
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 Ajay born?
The states with the most babies named Ajay are California, Texas and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,692 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,762 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,481 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #1,770 | 1.6× |
Where Ajay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ajay is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1964 it was given 1.6 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 Ajay 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,052 babies since 1880, Ajay is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 72 babies (88%), 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 Ajay
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 Ajay and names like it
- Compare Ajay and AjaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAjay peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ajay since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ajay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Ajay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ajay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.