Dajah
Dajah was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,020 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Dajah 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 Dajah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dajah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,723, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
181 babies in 1999, the peak
Dajah peaked in 1999, when 181 girls were given it, #1,098 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,723 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,322 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,442 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,475 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,387 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,034 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,079 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,195 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,526 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,314 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | #5,586 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,043 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,811 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,277 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,796 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,253 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,260 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,020 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,775 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 116 | #1,597 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,410 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 181 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 148 | #1,227 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,305 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 156 | #1,164 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 160 | #1,105 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,460 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,884 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,677 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,922 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dajah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dajah has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dajah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dajah, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,020 Americans ever recorded as Dajah. The median Dajah alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,535 people named Dajah (1,523 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 117 |
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 Dajah born?
The states with the most babies named Dajah are California, Illinois and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 112 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 111 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 99 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 70 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 66 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 63 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 59 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Dajah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dajah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1989 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 Dajah 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, Dajah is the fourth most given (17% 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 Dajah
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 Dajah and names like it
- Compare Dajah and DaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDajah peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dajah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Dajah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dajah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.