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Ajani

Ajani is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 1,343rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,145th. About 2,500 Ajanis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ajani boys named Ajani

Girls and boys called Ajani

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 258 girls and 2,241 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 6 to 67.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 31 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,499
Estimated living today
2,500
Median age today
17
Peak year
2004
Best rank
1,343rd
Rank in 2025
2,145th
First recorded
1974
Girls / boys
258 / 2,241

How old the living Ajanis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,499 babies given the name since 1974, about 2,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ajani is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ajani is most concentrated in Florida (5.8×), New York (5.0×), Georgia (1.8×), California (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Ajani peaked:

All the names of 2004

Ajani elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Ajani 123 1,744th
Switzerland boys Ajani 8 1,916th
France boys Ajani 5 3,861st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ajani: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Ajani 8 0.001% 1,469th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

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Ajani against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.