Ajith
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ajith is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Sri Lanka it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Sinhala, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 691◐
- INIndia1 in 1.5K
- MYMalaysia1 in 44K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 276 ●
- 1 in 146K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
792K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ajit in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 17 more and Ajeet in PK Pakistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #144 | 2,147,961 | 752K rec. | — | 1.1K | Ajit | 247 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,882 | 2.1K rec. | — | listed | Ajit | 94 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #31 | 2,071 | 5K rec. | — | — | Ajith | 65 |
| US United States | — | 2,035 | 23K rec. | 1 in 163K | 2K | Ajit | 276 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,473 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Ajit | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,429 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Ajith | 78 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,311 | 1.2K rec. | — | 15 | Ajit | 72 |
| BD Bangladesh | #755 | 1,063 | 638 rec. | — | listed | Ajit | 41 |
| SG Singapore | #739 | 651 | 890 rec. | — | — | Ajith | 34 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 572 | 460 rec. | — | — | Ajit | 37 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 430 | 472 rec. | — | — | Ajith | 23 |
| FR France | — | 381 | 282 rec. | — | — | Ajit | 57 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi54K54%
- Sinhala15K15%
- English8.8K9%
- 2.8K3%
- Arabic2.6K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 53,509 | 54% |
| Sinhala | 15,176 | 15% |
| English | 8,838 | 9% |
| 2,843 | 3% | |
| Arabic | 2,560 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 16 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ajith Nivard Cabraalb. 1954LKSri Lankan politician
- Ajith C. S. Pererab. 1956LKSri Lankan cricket umpire (1956–2020)
- Ajith Pererab. 1967LKSri Lankan politician
- Ajith Abrahamb. 1968USAjith Abraham, Dept. of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, USA
- Ajith Kumarb. 1971INactor, racer and producer
- Ajith Pererab. 1971LKbadminton player
- Ajith Premakumarab. 1991LKSri Lankan sprinter
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ajith?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Ajith (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ajith have the most bearers?
- Ajith is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ajit.
- How common is Ajith compared with other names?
- In India, Ajith is the 144th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Ajith a male or female name?
- Ajith 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Ajith” — the 144th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.