Daijon
Daijon was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,086 among boys’ names; 760 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daijon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daijon?
#9,086 among boys’ names, 2025
Daijon fell from #5,095 in 2015 to #9,086 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 4.7 per million.
39 babies in 2000, the peak
Daijon peaked in 2000, when 39 boys were given it, #2,435 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,086 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,529 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,954 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,031 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,062 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,446 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,270 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,416 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,857 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,103 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,095 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,098 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,835 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,916 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,908 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,386 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,282 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,663 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,144 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,804 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,545 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,290 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,738 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,195 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,939 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,435 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,675 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,564 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,263 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,936 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,575 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,941 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,761 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,606 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,049 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,345 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daijon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daijon has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Daijon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daijon, and how old are they?
An estimated 747 Americans named Daijon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Daijon (30 women and girls, 488 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,343 babies since 1880, Daijon is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 22 babies (36%), again the second most given.
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 Daijon
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 Daijon and names like it
- Compare Daijon and DajonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaijon peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daijon since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Daijon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daijon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.