Daysha
Daysha was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,923 among girls’ names; 2,660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,620 Americans named Daysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daysha?
#3,923 among girls’ names, 2025
Daysha rose from #4,163 in 2015 to #3,923 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 23.0 per million.
156 babies in 1996, the peak
Daysha peaked in 1996, when 156 girls were given it, #1,165 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,923 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,841 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,481 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,203 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,230 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,703 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,065 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,741 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,506 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,984 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,163 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,338 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,590 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,939 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,507 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,762 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,203 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,026 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,518 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,404 | 41.0 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,206 | 44.9 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,854 | 55.5 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,973 | 50.4 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,918 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,780 | 55.5 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,604 | 60.6 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,380 | 72.2 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,501 | 64.0 |
| 1997 | 126 | #1,362 | 72.4 |
| 1996 | 156 | #1,165 | 89.0 |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,307 | 72.2 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,379 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,327 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,034 | 36.3 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,245 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,606 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,531 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,604 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,190 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,292 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,666 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,247 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,797 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,567 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,360 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,780 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,266 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,304 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,269 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,706 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,406 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,378 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,723 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,493 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daysha, and how old are they?
2,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,660 Americans ever recorded as Daysha. The median Daysha alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,035 people named Daysha (2,031 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 818 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 382 |
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 Daysha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,690 | 0.5× |
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 Daysha 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 13,905 babies since 1880, Daysha is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 151 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
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 Daysha
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 Daysha and names like it
- Compare Daysha and DaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaysha peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daysha since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Daysha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daysha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.