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Ajani

#2,146 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

To fight + to have

Ajani has been given to 2,499 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,146 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 109 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.

Babies named Ajani, 2025

1 in 49,500

Ajani over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ajani over time

In 2025, Ajani went to 8% girls and 92% boys.

19742025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ajani: meaning, origin, and history

To fight + to have

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ajani means

Ajani means “to fight + to have”, associated with jà and ní.

Origin, language, and formation

Ajani is used in Yoruba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Yoruba, Ajani is pronounced /à.d͡ʒà.nĩ́/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,241 boys were recorded with the name Ajani between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,340 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,618 in 2020 to #2,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,642 in 2015 to #2,146 in 2025.

In the United States, 258 girls were recorded with the name Ajani between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2020; its best national rank was #6,935 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,935 in 2020 to #13,267 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ajani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,146
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ajani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ajani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ajanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ajani was born before 2008 — so the typical Ajani is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,241
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (913).

Is Ajani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−68
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+472
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+496
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2004 (109)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,340
2003

Spellings of Ajani

Ajani is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 70.6% against Ajani's 0.44%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ajani is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Ajani was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 29,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Ajani is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ajani was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ajani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ajani around the world

Where Ajani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2022–2022
    #3,861
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2008–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ajani

People whose public names include Ajani, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ajani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 472
Best rank ever
#1,340
2003
Peak year
2004
109 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,241
Count in 2025
67

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,267
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,332
Best rank ever
#6,935
2020
Peak year
2020
16 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
258
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Ajani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ajani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ajani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ajani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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