Da — boys' name

What the Data Says About Da

The Social Security Administration has registered 186 babies named Da between 1983 and 2010, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Da currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Da is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 116 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Da performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 123 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Da shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Da in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Da in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 186 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.