Name Awesome

Deja

#3,039 in 2025Girls' name

Already

Deja has been given to 16,360 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,039 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 1,638 recorded.

Babies named Deja, 2025

1 in 61,400

Deja over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deja: meaning, origin, and history

Already

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deja means

Deja means “already”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,274 girls were recorded with the name Deja between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,638 in 1996; its best national rank was #182 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,422 in 2020 to #3,039 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,686 in 2015 to #3,039 in 2025.

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Deja between 1979 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,573 in 1995.

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 Deja?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,039
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deja 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 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dejas were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16,274
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (8,271).

Is Deja 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
−176
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−617
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,353
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.3%
Peak was 1996 (1,638)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#182
1996

Spellings of Deja

Deja is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 24.2% against Deja's 0.72%.

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 Deja is used

Across 2016–2025, Deja was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 23,864 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 12,500
  2. 2Florida1 in 14,286
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 16,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 33,333

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.

Deja around the world

Where Deja 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Notable people named Deja

People whose public names include Deja, 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.

Deja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,039
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 617
Best rank ever
#182
1996
Peak year
1996
1,638 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,274
Count in 2025
54

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,573
1995
Peak year
1995
13 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deja

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

DejahDejanaeFrejaTejaDejiaDaejaDejhaDejanaDejonDejaneDejaiDejaeDejuanaDejaneeAlejaDejanayLadejaPejaTaejaKadejaAdejaKejaKhadeejaAeja

Names with a curve like Deja

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

AlexusTatyanaShaniaDestineeCheyanneLexusKianaJocelyneMikalaDaishaMichaelaCheyenne

Sibling names for Deja

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

Explore around Deja

Top names of 1996, Deja's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1996Girls' names starting with D