Aja Girl
How popular is Aja?
#3,458 girl name in 2025
44 baby girls were named Aja in the US in 2025, making it the 3458th most popular girl name.
Aja popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,458 for girls (▼ 851 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 44 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-48% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,236 in 2015, #2,034 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1978 (491 girls) |
| Highest rank | #412 in 1978 |
| First recorded | 1968 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aja counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Aja family of names ranked #2,207 for girls in 2025 (#1,790 the year before), with 57 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aja | 44 | 77% |
| Ajah | 13 | 23% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aja is most popular
Babies named Aja per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Aja by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #5,455 |
| 1970s | 874 | #412 |
| 1980s | 2,161 | #597 |
| 1990s | 2,125 | #822 |
| 2000s | 1,806 | #938 |
| 2010s | 952 | #1,469 |
| 2020s | 381 | #2,034 |
Girl names about as popular as Aja
Questions
- Is Aja a boy or girl name?
- Aja is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Aja were girls.
- How popular is the name Aja?
- 44 baby girls were named Aja in the US in 2025, making it the 3458th most popular girl name.
- When was Aja most popular?
- Aja peaked in 1978, when 491 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #412 in 1978.
- How many people are named Aja?
- 8,404 babies have been named Aja in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,241 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 31.
- Where is Aja most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aja was most common in Georgia, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.