How rare is the name Aja?

7,142 people in the United States have the first name Aja, about 1 in 42,289. It ranks #3,087 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

AJA

#3,087

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,142
About
1 in 42,289
This common or more
81.6%
Who bears it

Of the 7,142 people named Aja, 53.3% reported their origin as Black, 23.3% as White and 10.4% as two or more races. 97.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aja peaked in 1978, when 510 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
510
In 2025*
44 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,404 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Aja by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,358. The largest share of babies named Aja, 40.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#13,33215
1970s#2,088893
1980s#1,3582,200
1990s#1,6362,131
2000s#2,1861,826
2010s#3,654958
2020s#4,760381
Generation X 1965–8014.6%
Millennials 1981–9640.6%
Generation Z 1997–1233.5%
2013 and later11.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Aja is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aja has been most common in Florida (2.1×), Georgia (2.1×), and New Jersey (1.8×), and least common in Minnesota (0.32×).

5,904 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Aja

1 other first name also has 7,142 people.

#3,087 Tamar · 7,142

Either side of Aja

#3,085 Bradly · 7,148#3,086 Yajaira · 7,143#3,087 Tamar · 7,142#3,089 Korbin · 7,141

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Aja, most common first.

#2,412 Aj · 10,310#2,657 Ajay · 8,870#11,225 Ajah · 1,155#19,676 Ajia · 534#20,316 Ajai · 510#32,550 Aji · 258#43,791 Ajsa · 160

Also a last name

As a last name, Aja ranks #46,253 of 156,621, with 497 people. See Aja as a last name

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