Ajit, variously spelled Ajith, Agith, or Ajeet (ajita) is a common male given name. It is used in its various forms throughout India and also in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A related name is Ajay.
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Etymology
The name is derived from Sanskrit, where its primary meaning is "invincible", "irresistible", "unsurpassed". The literal meaning is "unconquered", from the prefix a- "not", and jita "conquered". It has variously been used to refer to a number of ideological figures, including Shiva and Vishnu in Hinduism, Maitreya in Buddhism and the second of the Arhats in Jainism among others.
People
Ajith Kumar (born 1996), Tamilnadu
Ajit Agarkar (born 1977), Indian cricketer and commentator
Ajith Amerasekera, American electrical engineer
Ajit Andhare, Indian businessman
Ajit Anjum (born 1969), Indian journalist and editor
Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), Indian adventurer
Ajit Balakrishnan, Indian entrepreneur, business executive, and administrator
Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Bengali actor and director
Ajit Kumar Banerjee (1931–2014), Indian environmentalist
Ajit Kumar Basu (1912–1986), Indian cardiac surgeon
Ajit Bhandari (born 1994), Nepalese footballer
Ajit Bharihoke, Indian judge
Ajit Bhatia (born 1936), Indian cricketer
Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924–2011), Indian journalist, newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express
Ajit Bhoite (born 1976), Indian cricketer
Ajit Kumar Bhuyan (born 1952), Indian politician
Ajit Chahal (born 1995), Indian cricketer
Ajit Kumar Chakravarty (1886–1918), Bengali writer
Ajit Chandila (born 1983), Indian cricketer
Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (born 1923), Indian civil servant
Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Indian professor and education administrator
Ajit Das (1949–2020), Indian actor, director, and playwright
Ajit Das Gupta (1924–2011), Indian cricketer
Ajit Doval (born 1945), Indian politician
Ajit Dutta (1907–1979), Bengali poet, writer, essayist, and professor
Ajit George, Indian-American activist and game designer
Ajit Kumar Guha (1914–1969), Bengali educationist
Ajit Gulabchand (born 1948), Indian industrialist
Ajit Gupta, Indian entrepreneur
Ajit Narain Haksar (1925–2005), Indian businessman
Ajit Hutheesing (1936–2017), Indian businessman
Ajit Jain (born 1951), Indian-American businessman
Ajit Jayaratne, Sinhalese businessman
Ajit Jogi (1946–2020), Indian politician
Ajit Johnson, Indian cancer geneticist
Ajit Kadkade, Indian singer
Ajit Kembhavi (born 1950), Indian astrophysicist
Ajita Kesakambali, Indian philosopher
Ajit Khan (1922–1998), screen name of Indian film actor Hamid Ali Khan
Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian Tamil actor
Ajit Lakra (born 1966), Indian field hockey player
Ajit Kumar Maiti (born 1928), Indian neurophysiologist
Ajit Manocha, Indian-American businessman
Ajit Kumar Mehta (born 1932), Indian politician
Ajit Merchant, Indian music composer and director
Ajit Mohan (born 1974/1975), Indian businessman
Ajit Narayanan (born 1981), Indian inventor
Ajit Ninan (born 1955), Indian political cartoonist
Ajit Kumar P, Indian Navy Admiral
Ajit Pai (born 1973), American attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Ajit Pai (born 1945), Indian cricketer
Ajit Pawar (1959–2026), Indian politician
Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008), Indian politician
Ajith C. S. Perera (born 1956), Sri Lankan disability activist, former cricket umpire
Ajit Kumar Saha, Indian politician
Ajit de Silva (born 1952), Sri Lankan cricketer
Ajeet Singh Kharkhari (born 1965), Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Ajit Singh (disambiguation), several people
Ajith Kumar Siriwardena, Sri Lankan Briton professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery
Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian mathematician
Ajit Wadekar (born 1941), a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket tea
Fictional characters
Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character), companion of Byomkesh Bakshi