girls:
43 births since 2010
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1961
#2625 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1961
#5460 (29th percentile)
The name Aj is the #5,460 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,355 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 29.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,625 (42.7% percentile) for all time with 2,312 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2010.
Aj first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Aj is available in 56 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aj has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aj reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #819) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 42 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aj ranks #852 for boys (6.5% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 82.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aj reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #933) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aj".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aj. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.7% confident that Aj is pronounced as AY-JAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-jee, at 25.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 JH EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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