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Ajit

#5,210 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ajita

Ajit has been given to 355 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #5,210 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Ajit, 2025

1 in 184,000

Ajit over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ajit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ajita

Sanskrit

What Ajit means

Ajit is a form of Ajita.

Origin, language, and formation

Ajit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ajita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 boys were recorded with the name Ajit between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,882 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,629 in 2020 to #5,210 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,679 in 2015 to #5,210 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 Ajit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,210
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ajit 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ajit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ajits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ajit was born before 2006 — so the typical Ajit is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
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Choose a decade

2020s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Ajit 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
+1,260
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,419
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,469
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2023 (20)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,882
1986

Spellings of Ajit

Ajit is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 43.5% against Ajit's 0.10%.

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 Ajit is used

Across 1910–2025, Ajit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 378,972 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Ajit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ajit around the world

Where Ajit 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #585
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ajit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,210
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,419
Best rank ever
#3,882
1986
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Ajit

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

AjithRanjitSanjitSujitArjitRajitAbhijitJagjitPrajitAjiteshGurjitSukhjitArijitInderjitAmanjitEkamjitAgamjitSimranjitSamarjitVikramjit

Sibling names for Ajit

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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