Dayjah
Dayjah was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 275 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayjah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayjah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,825, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2000, the peak
Dayjah peaked in 2000, when 31 girls were given it, #4,002 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,825 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,855 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,235 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,104 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,211 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,086 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,505 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,299 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,836 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,720 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #11,041 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,354 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,035 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,409 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,956 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,784 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,048 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,002 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,758 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,420 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,239 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,329 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,146 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayjah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayjah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayjah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayjah, and how old are they?
An estimated 272 Americans named Dayjah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 242 people named Dayjah (238 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 Dayjah?
Dayjah is a less common spelling of Daija: SSA has recorded 275 Dayjah and 3,065 Daija since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,840 babies since 1880, Dayjah is the eighth most given (2.3% 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 Dayjah
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 Dayjah and names like it
- Compare Dayjah and DaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayjah peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayjah since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Dayjah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayjah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.