girls:
5 births since 2013
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.5k births since 1964
#1812 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1964
#4086 (47th percentile)
The name Ajay is the #4,086 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,471 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 47.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,812 (60.5% percentile) for all time with 4,466 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2013.
Ajay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 2013 for girls).
The name Ajay has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ajay reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 18.4% percentile (ranked #673) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 78 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ajay ranks #847 for boys (7.0% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 48.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ajay reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #931) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ajay".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ajay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.8% confident that Ajay is pronounced as uh-JAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-jay, at 28.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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