Dayja
Dayja was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 537 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,697, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1996, the peak
Dayja peaked in 1996, when 50 girls were given it, #2,515 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,697 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,234 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,571 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,250 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,346 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,210 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,455 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,887 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,890 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,577 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 16 | #7,774 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,493 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,200 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,423 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,641 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,249 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,047 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,663 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,723 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,340 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,330 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,239 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,173 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,515 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,796 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,970 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,151 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,135 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayja, and how old are they?
An estimated 530 Americans named Dayja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 448 people named Dayja (444 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 528 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Dayja?
Dayja is a less common spelling of Daija: SSA has recorded 537 Dayja and 3,065 Daija since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,004 babies since 1880, Dayja is the sixth most given (4.5% 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 Dayja
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 Dayja and names like it
- Compare Dayja and DaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDayja peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayja since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Dayja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.