Ajith

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/əʒiθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ajith is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 498(inferred from the name graph)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 7.3Kas Ajit
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 31Kas Ajit

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 Ajith 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.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈46,000 people, est.

#934 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
306 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 498 (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AjitLatin(measured from records)
অজিতBengali(measured from records)
อาจิตรThai(measured from records)
අජතSinhala(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ajit in US United States, MY Malaysia, BD Bangladesh and 2 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ajith 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.

Where Ajith is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#30≈46,000 est.≈1 in 498—Ajith72
BD Bangladesh#664≈22,000 est.≈1 in 7.3KlistedAjit41
NP Nepal—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Ajit42
ID Indonesia—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 50K—Ajit41
US United States—2,177as Ajit1 in 153K2KAjit306
MY Malaysia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 31K—Ajit34
SG Singapore#918≈280 est.≈1 in 22K—Ajith35
PL Poland—991 in 387K99Ajith5

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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ajith is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malayalam given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Malayalam, Tamil

    Also written അജിത്ത്, அஜித், அஜீத், അജിത്, അജിത

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Ájíth

  • Swedish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Àjíth

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Ajith Nivard Cabraal, b. 1954Ajith C. S. Perera, b. 1956Ajith Perera, b. 1967Ajith Abraham, b. 1968Ajith Kumar, b. 1971Ajith Perera, b. 1971Ajith Premakumara, b. 1991

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Ajith जी,Hi Ajith, (English)

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 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Ajith
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#247,946
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 are other forms of the name Ajith?
In the etymology graph, Ajit and Ajeet are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Ajith?
A machine transcription gives /əʒiθ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Ajith a male or female name?
Ajith 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 Ajith have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Ajith in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ajith.
How common is the name Ajith?
In Poland, the national register counted 99 people named Ajith in 2026, about 1 in 387 thousand residents.
How common is Ajith compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Ajith is the 30th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ajith” — the 30th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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