Ajia — girls' name
616 babies named Ajia in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Ajia was born in this single decade.
38 babies were named Ajia in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ajia
The Social Security Administration has registered 616 babies named Ajia between 1978 and 2020, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ajia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 38 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ajia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 254 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ajia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ajia in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ajia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 616 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ajia at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ajia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1978
- Peak year (1996)
- 38
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
616 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 38 births in a single year.
Ajia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 254 births that decade — 41% of Ajia's all-time total
Ajia decade highlights
- Peak decade 254 births
- Runner-up 220 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Ajia's strongest decade
254 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Ajia by state
Where Ajia concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 22 | 3.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 17 | 2.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #4 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.8% |
22 of 616 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.6% of nationwide
- Texas 2.8% of nationwide
- Florida 0.8% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.