Pj
#10,418 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pj has been given to 208 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #10,418 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Pj, 2025
1 in 474,000
Pj 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Pj?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,418
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pj sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pjs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pj was born before 1994 — so the typical Pj is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 28.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 208
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Pj 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
- +1,567
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,083
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 77.8%
- Peak was 1984 (9)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.4% average annual change
Pj around the world
Where Pj 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 & Wales2004–2018#4,749in 2018
- Ireland2020–2021#631in 2021
- South Australia2006–2006#419in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Pj by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Sibling names for Pj
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.