Ajaya
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ajaya is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K).
- 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 ●
- #390 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 350 ●
- 1 in 4.3K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.9M records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ajay in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 23 more, 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●
Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #22 | 6,176,958 | 1.8M rec. | — | 1.1K | Ajay | 319 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 13,077 | 8.2K rec. | — | 5 | Ajay | 138 |
| US United States | — | 8,774 | 88K rec. | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Ajay | 350 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,247 | 6.1K rec. | — | 4 | Ajay | 144 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,527 | 3.6K rec. | — | 1 | Ajay | 124 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,058△ | 673 rec. | 1 in 4.3K | 4.1K | Ajay | 47 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,756 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Ajay | 38 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,887 | 758 rec. | — | — | Ajay | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,694 | 1K rec. | — | — | Ajay | 68 |
| BD Bangladesh | #684 | 1,360 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Ajoy | 42 |
| FR France | — | 1,232 | 763 rec. | — | 26 | Ajay | 104 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,024 | 904 rec. | — | 1 | Ajay | 84 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi206K79%
- Indonesian11K4%
- Khmer8.1K3%
- Bangla6.3K2%
- English5.9K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 205,798 | 79% |
| Indonesian | 10,999 | 4% |
| Khmer | 8,146 | 3% |
| Bangla | 6,337 | 2% |
| English | 5,875 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ajaya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Annapiirna (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
invincible, intoxicating
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2021 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 17 years between 1998–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.2K | #2,911 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 333 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 154 | #30,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 134 | #30,312 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 31 | #4,658 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #4,894 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #65,162 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 19 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,799 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #33,232 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 15 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 15 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 131 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ajaya?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Ajaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ajaya have the most bearers?
- Ajaya is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ajay.
- How common is Ajaya compared with other names?
- In India, Ajaya is the 22nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Ajaya a male or female name?
- Ajaya 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 Ajaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K)
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About this data
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, “Ajaya” — the 22nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.