Ajay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ajay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 38K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.4Kas Ajoy
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ajay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #327 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 515 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ajoy in BD Bangladesh and Ajaya in SA Saudi Arabia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ajay counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | 1 | Ajay | 71 |
| BD Bangladesh | #571 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | listed | Ajoy | 45 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ajay | 72 |
| US United States | — | 8,870 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Ajay | 387 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Ajay | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,058as Aagje | 1 in 4.3K | 4.1K | Ajay | 45 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Ajaya | 9 |
| GY Guyana | #437 | 161 | 1 in 4.7K | 161 | Ajay | 5 |
| IN India | #16 | — | — | 1.1K | Ajay | 346 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ajay Mehtab. 1938INAmerican actor
- Ajay K. Soodb. 1951INIndian physicist
- Ajaypal Singh Bangab. 1959INnot in their usual nameIndian American business executive
- Ajay Devganb. 1968INIndian film actor, director and producer
- Yogi Adityanathb. 1972INnot in their usual name21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Ajay Naidub. 1972USAmerican actor
- Ajay Jayaramb. 1987INIndian badminton player
- Ajay Frieseb. 1998CACanadian actor
- Ajay Mitchellb. 2002BEBelgian basketball player (born 2002)
- Ajay BhattacharyyaCACanadian record producer and songwriter
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(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 24K | #241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.8K | #2,657 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 286 | #2,315 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 173 | #5,924 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 161 | #434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #2,657 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 63 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 22 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #120 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ajay mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Hindi अजय (ajay), etc. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- 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.
- In which country does Ajay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Ajay in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ajay.
- How common is the name Ajay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,870 people named Ajay in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Ajay compared with other names?
- In India, Ajay is the 16th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ajayThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 16th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.