Ajayi

Ajayi is the 10,093rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,044 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 98,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,044
Rank: 10,093rd
How common: 1 in 98,200
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Yoruba

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ajayi described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 94.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
White, not Hispanic 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ajayi

Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin (born 1985)Nigerian women's activist
Semi Ajayi (born 1993)Nigerian footballer
Junior Ajayi (born 1996)Nigerian association football player
Samuel Ajayi (born 1984)Nigerian footballer
Kikelomo Ajayi (born 1977)football player
Goodness Ohiremen Ajayi (born 1994)Nigerian footballer

People named Ajayi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.