Ajaya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ajaya 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.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.4Kas Ajoy(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12Kas Ajay
- USUnited States1 in 38Kas Ajay
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 Ajaya 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 named Ajay, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Ajay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ajay in IN India, US United States, NL Netherlands and 4 more and Ajoy in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ajaya 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 | — | 8,870as Ajay | 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 | 161as Ajay | 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)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
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 |
| 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 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 19 | — |
| 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 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 12 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 12 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 11 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ajaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Aghora (N); Nrsimha (N); Visnu (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- 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.
- In which country does Ajaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Ajay in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ajaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,870 people named Ajay in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Ajaya compared with other names?
- In India, Ajaya is the 16th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ajayaThe 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, “Ajaya” — the 16th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.