Ajai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əhaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ajai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 652K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 14K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈630 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ajai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Ajai | 30 |
| US United States | 510 | 1 in 652K | 340 | Ajai | 158 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ajai | 15 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Ajai | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Ajai | 21 |
| GY Guyana | 55 | 1 in 14K | 55 | Ajai | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Ajai | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Ajai | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Ajai 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 kxd, chin (bottom of a face)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 340 | #20,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 170 | #20,316 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 55 | #539 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 11 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ajai?
- A machine transcription gives /əhaɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ajai a male or female name?
- Ajai 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 Ajai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 631 people named Ajai in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ajai.
- Where is Ajai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ajai is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ajai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 510 people named Ajai in 2020, about 1 in 652 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ajai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ajaiThe 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, “Ajai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.