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Ajay

Masculine · “unconquerable”

Ajay is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,589 boys against 5 girls since 1880.

1964high 2011
#2230 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare63 boys in 2025

Ajay is unconquerable in Sanskrit — a-jaya, not-victory-over — so the name says nobody defeats him.

How old is the name Ajay?

Ajay first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Ajay alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 4,500 people named Ajay are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Ajay most popular?

Ajay peaked in 2003, reaching #1007 nationally. Today it ranks #2230, 1,223 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Ajay

Jaya means victory and runs through Indian naming; the a- prefix negates, so Ajay is the one not defeated. The same construction gives Ahimsa, non-violence, and Amrita, deathless. Ajay is a standard Indian given name and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

unconquerable, invincible

From the Sanskrit ajaya — the negating a- prefix and jaya, 'victory' — meaning one over whom no victory is won. Jaya is the word the Mahabharata calls itself. The Sanskrit is ordinary and the compound transparent.

How the name formed

  1. a-jaya
  2. Ajay

Related forms: अजय · Ajaya · Ajai

Pronouncing Ajay

uh-JAY

Two syllables, stress on the second. Hindi says AH-jay with a fuller first vowel.

Nicknames for Ajay

Moderate

AJThe initials, and a short form with a large American record
JayThe back of the name, and a name in its own right with a large record
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1964–20251587901586319642025

US babies named Ajay per year from 1964 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#10071960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1964
Most boys named
2011158 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1007reached in 2003
Change vs 2024
+10.5%63 in 2025, from 57
Ajay sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2011, with 158 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Ajay in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • अजय in Hindi — transliteration
  • Ajaya in Sanskrit — related form
  • Ajai in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.

Ajays among us

4,500

people named Ajay are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 27,112 born in 2025 was named Ajay

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Ajay

#2230
Ajay on the 2025 chart
#856
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ajay went to 63 boys in 2025, but Ajai is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 856th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,374 places above the chart.

  • Ajay63
  • Ajai9

About 1 boy in 23,723 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,112 for Ajay itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Kennard test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ajay's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kennard climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kennard's path sketches the road Ajay is walking now.

40%chance Ajay will feel dated by 2040
Ajay, aligned on its peakKennard· peak 1954not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+70 yrsKennard · #10500Ajay today
Ajay today is about where Kennard stood in 1976 — 22 years past a #1007-sized peak. By 1991, Kennard had settled around #2981.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Ajay sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Ajay is headed

19642030

US babies named Ajay per year, 1964 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Ajay is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-17% by 2030projected around #2,660 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Ajay beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Ajay in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Ajaythis name63#2230Rayaan63#2230Tyce63#2230Earl63#2230Gene63#2230

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The unconquerable meaning is transparent and strong.
  • That the a- prefix gives ahimsa and amrita too is a first-rate pattern.
  • AJ and Jay are two short forms, both with large records.
What to consider
  • English and Hindi stress it differently.
  • It reads as specifically Indian.
  • Ajay and AJ are often conflated in American records.

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Frequently asked

How many Ajays are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,500 people named Ajay are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Ajay?
Ajay is the most-used spelling in US records — 63 of the 72 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ajai.
How popular is the name Ajay in 2025?
Ajay ranks #2230 among US boy names in 2025, with 63 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Ajay?
About 1 in every 27,112 US boys born in 2025 was named Ajay — 63 in all.
Will my child share the name Ajay with classmates?
Ajay will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Ajay

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