Deja — #2859 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Deja

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,215 babies named Deja between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deja currently holds the #2859 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 1,638 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deja performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 8,271 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Deja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,570 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Deja in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deja in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,215 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.