Deaja
Deaja was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 433 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 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 Deaja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deaja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,910, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1999, the peak
Deaja peaked in 1999, when 32 girls were given it, #3,729 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #13,910 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,131 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,253 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,112 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,046 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,282 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,624 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,891 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,844 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,130 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #11,840 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,823 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,124 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,001 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,033 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,236 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,502 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,869 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,316 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,729 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,673 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,267 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,108 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,733 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,766 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,789 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,540 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,483 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,864 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,509 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deaja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deaja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deaja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deaja, and how old are they?
An estimated 427 Americans named Deaja 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 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 363 people named Deaja (358 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,466 babies since 1880, Deaja is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 67 babies recorded by SSA was a Deaja (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deaja
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 Deaja and names like it
- Compare Deaja and DejaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeaja peaked in 1999.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Deaja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deaja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.