Deijah
Deijah was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 283 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deijah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,257, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1999, the peak
Deijah peaked in 1999, when 25 girls were given it, #4,477 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,257 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,215 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,167 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,508 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,456 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,375 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,888 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,147 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,204 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,359 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #13,355 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,942 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,654 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,433 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,049 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,262 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,477 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,831 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,954 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,622 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,735 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deijah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deijah, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Deijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Deijah (244 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 280 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 21,305 babies since 1880, Deijah is the sixth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 67 babies recorded by SSA was a Deijah (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 Deijah
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 Deijah and names like it
- Compare Deijah and DejaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeijah peaked in 1999.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deijah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Deijah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deijah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.