Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Pj isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pj through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 208
- 208 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,422 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,422 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Pj
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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