Daija
Daija was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,444 among girls’ names; 3,065 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Daija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daija?
#15,444 among girls’ names, 2025
Daija fell from #5,328 in 2015 to #15,444 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 3.1 per million.
258 babies in 1997, the peak
Daija peaked in 1997, when 258 girls were given it, #804 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,444 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,698 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,771 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,267 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,717 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,045 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,647 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,095 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,339 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,328 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,515 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,444 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,144 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,931 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,169 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,681 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,592 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,021 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,358 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,926 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,472 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,213 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,165 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 205 | #1,045 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 221 | #957 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 246 | #873 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 252 | #847 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 258 | #804 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 253 | #809 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 203 | #925 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,629 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,511 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,789 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,454 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,888 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,340 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,322 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daija, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,065 Americans ever recorded as Daija. The median Daija alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,462 people named Daija (2,455 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,958 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 595 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Daija born?
The states with the most babies named Daija are Texas, California and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 219 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 218 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 187 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 184 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 135 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 132 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 102 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 93 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 78 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Daija is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daija is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1986 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daija with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,004 babies since 1880, Daija is the most given (26% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daija
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daija and names like it
- Compare Daija and DajaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaija peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daija since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Daija.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daija alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.