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Daja

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Daja has been given to 2,399 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 241 recorded.

Babies named Daja, 2023

1 in 237,000

Daja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daja: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daja means

Daja is a given name.

The naming story behind Daja

Wikidata records Daja as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q63409946, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,399 girls were recorded with the name Daja between 1979 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 241 in 1996; its best national rank was #831 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Daja?

Daja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
164,118 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,118 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dajas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daja was born before 1999 — so the typical Daja is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,399
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (1,193).

Is Daja rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (241)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#831
1996

Spellings of Daja

Daja is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 13.2% against Daja's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Daja is used

Across 1910–2025, Daja was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 88,420 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Maryland1 in 33,333
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daja in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Daja. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaiaDayaDajana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Daja by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#831
1996
Peak year
1996
241 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,399
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daja

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MajaTajaSajaDajahKajaNajaAjaHajaDajiaRajaDajeDajaeDajanaeDajhaDeajaDajaiDajanaDajonAnajaAlajaNiajaDajshaTiajaTanaja

Names with a curve like Daja

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daja, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NauticaOdalisMicaylaMakalaShiannElexisMikalaJaileneJocelyneOdalysShianneDestany

Sibling names for Daja

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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