Daijah
Daijah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,594 among girls’ names; 2,327 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Daijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daijah?
#13,594 among girls’ names, 2025
Daijah fell from #4,515 in 2015 to #13,594 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 3.7 per million.
195 babies in 1996, the peak
Daijah peaked in 1996, when 195 girls were given it, #975 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,594 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,454 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,154 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,513 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,468 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,297 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,083 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,762 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,515 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,198 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,266 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,980 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,953 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,788 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,490 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,339 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,022 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,273 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,857 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,824 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,687 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,510 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 151 | #1,287 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 151 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 145 | #1,273 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 142 | #1,272 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,352 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 195 | #975 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,168 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,774 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,076 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,460 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daijah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daijah, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,327 Americans ever recorded as Daijah. The median Daijah alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,838 people named Daijah (1,831 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 373 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 261 |
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 Daijah born?
The states with the most babies named Daijah are Florida, Texas and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 181 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 160 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 130 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 71 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 70 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Daijah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daijah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1990 it was given 1.7 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 Daijah 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 11,840 babies since 1880, Daijah is the third most given (20% 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 Daijah
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 Daijah and names like it
- Compare Daijah and DaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaijah peaked in 1996.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daijah since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Daijah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daijah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.