Daja
Daja was last recorded in 2023, when 14 babies were given it; 2,399 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Daja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,731, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
241 babies in 1996, the peak
Daja peaked in 1996, when 241 girls were given it, #831 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 | #7,731 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,858 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,499 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,833 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,894 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,307 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,919 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,976 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,074 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,393 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 25 | #5,355 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,094 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,417 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,751 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,793 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,795 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,184 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,319 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,560 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,758 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,626 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,516 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 170 | #1,175 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 183 | #1,089 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 191 | #1,036 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 191 | #1,008 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 241 | #831 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 195 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,883 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,941 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,045 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,912 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,265 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,332 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,118 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,843 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,607 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,529 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daja, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,399 Americans ever recorded as Daja. The median Daja alive today is 27 years old; half are between 23 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,985 people named Daja (1,958 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 727 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 134 |
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 Daja born?
The states with the most babies named Daja are Illinois, California and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 144 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 121 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 120 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 105 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 103 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 101 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 83 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 78 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 62 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Daja is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daja is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1979 it was given 2.5 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 Daja 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, Daja is the second 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 Daja
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 Daja and names like it
- Compare Daja and DaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaja peaked in 1996.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daja since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Daja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.