Ajani
Ajani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 72 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 720.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2004109 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1974
- 2,426people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,174 boys have been named Ajani in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 109 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2004, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 42%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 252 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Ajani was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Ajani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Quadirpeak 2002
- Jairpeak 2003
- Cadepeak 2001
- Paceypeak 2001
- Kanyonpeak 2007
- Osielpeak 2023
- Ulicespeak 2018
- Canyonpeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.