# Aja (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aja/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,404 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 90 / 8,314 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 41, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 152 | 1,470 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,955 |
| 2013 | 80 | 2,308 |
| 2014 | 86 | 2,194 |
| 2015 | 84 | 2,237 |
| 2016 | 65 | 2,668 |
| 2017 | 99 | 1,989 |
| 2018 | 82 | 2,240 |
| 2019 | 67 | 2,595 |
| 2020 | 91 | 2,036 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2,818 |
| 2022 | 61 | 2,792 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2,892 |
| 2024 | 67 | 2,608 |
| 2025 | 44 | 3,461 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 19 | 2,376 |
| 1980 | 9 | 4,141 |
| 1981 | 6 | 5,487 |
| 1984 | 6 | 5,578 |
| 1985 | 7 | 5,161 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,101 |
| 1989 | 5 | 7,930 |
| 1998 | 6 | 8,493 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,267 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,317 |
| 2007 | 6 | 10,965 |
| 2017 | 6 | 10,824 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Aja

- A'ja Wilson, American basketball player (born 1996)
- Aja Evans, American bobsledder
- Aja Volkman, American singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.