Deja
Deja was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,039 among girls’ names; 16,360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,100 Americans named Deja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 23 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deja?
#3,039 among girls’ names, 2025
Deja fell from #1,686 in 2015 to #3,039 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 70.6 to 33.6 per million.
1,647 babies in 1996, the peak
Deja peaked in 1996, when 1,647 babies were given it (1,638 girls, #182 among girls’ names). The 54 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,039 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,863 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,451 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,260 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,292 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,422 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,093 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,101 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,912 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,686 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,581 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 139 | #1,573 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 185 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 274 | #970 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 311 | #894 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 433 | #679 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 362 | #758 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 358 | #749 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 474 | #592 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 565 | #507 | 0.31 |
| 2002 | 687 | #424 | 0.38 |
| 2001 | 853 | #350 | 0.47 |
| 2000 | 921 | #336 | 0.51 |
| 1999 | 1,157 | #271 | 0.65 |
| 1998 | 1,244 | #245 | 0.70 |
| 1997 | 1,391 | #216 | 0.80 |
| 1996 | 1,638 | #182 | 0.93 |
| 1995 | 1,420 | #205 | 0.81 |
| 1994 | 245 | #824 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 298 | #715 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 285 | #741 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 315 | #679 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 278 | #745 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 235 | #809 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 286 | #676 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,339 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,150 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,958 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,434 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,965 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,381 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,707 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,633 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,305 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,193 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,081 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,622 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,714 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,203 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,788 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deja has been given almost only to girls: 86 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deja, and how old are they?
16,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,360 Americans ever recorded as Deja. The median Deja alive today is 28 years old; half are between 23 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 13,244 people named Deja (13,136 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Deja born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,556 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,019 | 0.9× |
Where Deja is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deja is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1962 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Deja 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 21,466 babies since 1880, Deja is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 67 babies (81%), again the most given.
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 Deja
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 Deja and names like it
- Compare Deja and DejahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeja peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deja since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Deja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.