Dejah
#7,988 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dejah has been given to 3,181 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,988 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 341 recorded.
Babies named Dejah, 2025
1 in 255,000
Dejah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dejah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,988
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dejah 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dejah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dejahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dejah was born before 2000 — so the typical Dejah is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,176
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,289).
Is Dejah 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
- −661
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −983
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,056
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.34×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.8%
- Peak was 1999 (341)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Dejah
Dejah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 66.5% against Dejah's 0.82%.
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 Dejah is used
Across 1910–2025, Dejah was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 70,698 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Virginia1 in 25,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 33,333
- 3Florida1 in 33,333
- 4Georgia1 in 33,333
- 5Illinois1 in 33,333
- 6Maryland1 in 33,333
- 7California1 in 50,000
- 8Louisiana1 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. Dejah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dejah around the world
Where Dejah 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 & Wales2006–2017#5,765in 2017
- Canada2000–2006#2,939in 2006
- South Australia1981–1984#661in 1984
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.
Dejah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dejah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Dejah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dejah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Dejah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.