Ajaye
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ajaye has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% boys, 45% girls all-time.
Babies named Ajaye, 2006
1 in 659,000
Ajaye over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ajaye over time
In 2019, Ajaye went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Ajaye?
Ajaye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ajaye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ajaye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ajayes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ajaye was born before 2006 — so the typical Ajaye is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Ajaye 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (6)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Ajaye
Ajaye is not the most common spelling — Jay is, with 37.5% against Ajaye's <0.01%.
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.
Ajaye around the world
Where Ajaye 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 & Wales2020–2020#4,608in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ajaye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ajaye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ajaye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.