Ajah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 27 babies a year in the US.
Ajah by the numbers
Ajah was given to 27 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 97 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Ajah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ajah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Avahlife; bird; a respelling of Ava514 in the US (2017)
- Ayahsign, verse of the Quran338 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ajaone who drives; goat103 in the US (2017)
- Adahornament87 in the US (2017)
- Aijahmy father is Yahweh; a form of Elijah11 in the US (2017)
- Arahlion; a form of Ariel or Ari11 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Ajah
Names that are said the same way as Ajah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Ajah
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