# Ajay (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ajay/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,594 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,589 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,951, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | 16,647 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 158 | 1,143 |
| 2012 | 129 | 1,322 |
| 2013 | 133 | 1,297 |
| 2014 | 130 | 1,334 |
| 2015 | 119 | 1,434 |
| 2016 | 88 | 1,754 |
| 2017 | 107 | 1,530 |
| 2018 | 108 | 1,553 |
| 2019 | 77 | 1,917 |
| 2020 | 85 | 1,778 |
| 2021 | 90 | 1,770 |
| 2022 | 80 | 1,938 |
| 2023 | 70 | 2,098 |
| 2024 | 57 | 2,420 |
| 2025 | 63 | 2,230 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 77 | 479 |
| 2012 | 75 | 505 |
| 2013 | 52 | 647 |
| 2014 | 48 | 684 |
| 2015 | 68 | 557 |
| 2016 | 55 | 641 |
| 2017 | 68 | 568 |
| 2018 | 66 | 564 |
| 2019 | 44 | 740 |
| 2020 | 32 | 898 |
| 2021 | 42 | 784 |
| 2022 | 35 | 878 |
| 2023 | 46 | 728 |
| 2024 | 39 | 826 |
| 2025 | 34 | 914 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: अजय

## People named Ajay

- Ajay Jadeja, former Indian cricketer
- Ajay Naidu, American actor
- Ajay Mitchell, Belgian basketball player (born 2002)
- Yogi Adityanath, 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

## 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.