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Dajuan

#5,249 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dajuan has been given to 3,525 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,249 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Dajuan, 2025

1 in 184,000

Dajuan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dajuan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dajuan means

Dajuan is a given name.

The naming story behind Dajuan

Wikidata records Dajuan as a given name. The entity identifier is Q98400614, 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, 3,525 boys were recorded with the name Dajuan between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 136 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,059 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,730 in 2020 to #5,249 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,308 in 2015 to #5,249 in 2025.

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 Dajuan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,249
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dajuan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dajuan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dajuans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dajuan was born before 1998 — so the typical Dajuan is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,525
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (1,010).

Is Dajuan 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
+1,283
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−519
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,941
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.2%
Peak was 2001 (136)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,059
2001

Spellings of Dajuan

Dajuan is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 64.2% against Dajuan's 0.62%.

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 Dajuan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dajuan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 69,523 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 14,286
  2. 2Maryland1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dajuan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dajuan around the world

Where Dajuan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Dajuan

People whose public names include Dajuan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dajuan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,249
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 519
Best rank ever
#1,059
2001
Peak year
2001
136 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,525
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Dajuan

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

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Names with a curve like Dajuan

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

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Sibling names for Dajuan

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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