Deejay
#12,475 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deejay has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #12,475 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Deejay, 2025
1 in 663,000
Deejay over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Deejay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,475
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deejay sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deejay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deejays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deejay was born before 2012 — so the typical Deejay is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (66).
Is Deejay 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,553
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 41.7%
- Peak was 2014 (12)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Deejay
Deejay is not the most common spelling — Deegan is, with 82.5% against Deejay's 4.3%.
Deejay around the world
Where Deejay 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 & Wales1996–2017#4,812in 2017
- Canada2019–2019#2,583in 2019
- South Australia2002–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Deejay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Deejay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Deejay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.