Ajax
A boys’ name of Greek origin, meaning eagle; from mythology.
Babies a year
9
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2440
9 babies
Ajax by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Ajax. In the US, 28 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 33 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ajax. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bird
Like Ajax, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
- Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ajax
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