Ajay

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ajay is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 525◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4.3K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 16K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈14K ●

across 7 countries

#390 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
350 ●

1.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.3K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

AjayLatin · Hindi●5.4M records
ଅଜୟOdia · Odia●224 records
อาเจThai · Thai●104 records
অজযBengali · Bangla●12 records
అజయTelugu · Telugu●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ajoy in BD Bangladesh, PL Poland and Ajam in TR Türkiye, SY Syria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ajay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#226,176,9581.8M rec.—1.1KAjay319
GB United Kingdom—13,0778.2K rec.—5Ajay138
US United States—8,77488K rec.1 in 38K8.8KAjay350
AU Australia—6,2476.1K rec.—4Ajay144
CA Canada—4,5273.6K rec.—1Ajay124
NL Netherlands—4,058△673 rec.1 in 4.3K4.1KAjay47
MY Malaysia—2,7561.7K rec.——Ajay38
PH Philippines—1,887758 rec.——Ajay41
ID Indonesia—1,6941K rec.——Ajay68
BD Bangladesh#6841,3601.1K rec.—listedAjoy42
FR France—1,232763 rec.—26Ajay104
DE Germany—1,024904 rec.—1Ajay84

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi5.4M81%
  • 741K11%
  • English198K3%
  • Bangla70K1%
  • Urdu43K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,416,81281%
741,01811%
English197,9253%
Bangla70,1541%
Urdu43,1141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ajay is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name783K records spelled Ajay2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Ajaẏ

  • Arabic given name22K records spelled Ajay31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written A-Jay, Ajaý, Äjày, Ájãy, Àjàý

  • a separate name11K records spelled Ajay3 spellings in the group

    Also written અજય, Ajey

  • Russian given name5.6K records spelled Ajay23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Аджай, Ajai, Аджаи, Adzhaj, Àjáy

  • Hungarian given name3.0K records spelled Ajay4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Äjäy

  • Korean given name580 records spelled Ajay2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Korea, Canada

    Also written 아제이

  • a separate given name454 records spelled Ajay20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Ãjãy, Åjâý, Ãjåy, Åjãy, Ãjáy

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ajay is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001920194019601980200052K · 1993

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Ajay in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1898–2017
Yearrecords
18981
189952
19007
19012
19021
19062
19071
19081
19111
19121
19141
19154
191611
191710
191836
191937
1920164
192146
192276
1923366
192493
192563
192612
192719
192828
192934
193020
193127
193230
193329
193445
193542
193649
193772
193865
193999
194092
1941109
1942168
1943159
1944216
1945227
1946281
1947338
1948351
1949397
1950546
1951655
1952857
1953704
19541,264
19551,379
19561,669
19572,095
19582,392
19593,049
19603,064
19613,397
19625,105
19634,877
19646,424
19656,507
19667,774
19679,389
19689,796
196910,702
197012,962
197112,741
197216,041
197316,050
197418,375
197518,766
197621,888
197719,574
197821,060
197922,456
198018,459
198126,489
198232,894
198334,111
198437,247
198536,113
198629,101
198737,819
198835,833
198935,593
199037,563
199142,208
199247,513
199351,971
199445,697
199543,280
199624,314
199723,840
199817,142
19991,298
200036
200137
200219
20035
200748
20083,378
20096
20101,869
201186
2012175
2013289
20146,986
20151,601
20167
201722

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 111 years between 1898–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Ajay Mehta, b. 1938Ajay K. Sood, b. 1951Ajaypal Singh Banga, b. 1959Ajay Devgan, b. 1968Yogi Adityanath, b. 1972Ajay Naidu, b. 1972Ajay Jayaram, b. 1987Ajay Friese, b. 1998Ajay Mitchell, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Ajay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—80K#174
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—24K#241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.8K#2,657
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#5,237
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—286#2,315
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020240#84,231
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026205#1,266
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—180#1,307
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—173#5,924
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—168#5,917
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025161#434
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—134#6,327

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 480 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ajay?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Ajay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Ajay have the most bearers?
Ajay is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ajay.
How common is Ajay compared with other names?
In India, Ajay is the 22nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Ajay a male or female name?
Ajay is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ajay mean?
Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ajay” — the 22nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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