Dejanae
Dejanae was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,485 among girls’ names; 1,111 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Dejanae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dejanae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dejanae?
#15,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Dejanae fell from #12,122 in 2015 to #15,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
75 babies in 2002, the peak
Dejanae peaked in 2002, when 75 girls were given it, #2,204 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,485 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,357 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,130 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,461 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,604 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,860 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,772 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,320 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,954 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,055 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,122 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,216 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,762 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,922 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,786 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,235 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,256 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,725 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,933 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,870 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,524 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,274 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,896 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,204 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,601 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,283 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,407 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,501 | 31.1 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,451 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,516 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,795 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,462 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,943 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,615 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,736 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,732 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,580 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,749 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dejanae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dejanae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dejanae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dejanae, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,111 Americans ever recorded as Dejanae. The median Dejanae alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 799 people named Dejanae (799 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 269 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 116 |
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 Dejanae born?
The states with the most babies named Dejanae are California, Michigan and Illinois, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 169 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 47 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dejanae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dejanae is most over-represented in California: since 1987 it was given 1.1 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 Dejanae 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,246 babies since 1880, Dejanae is the most given (49% of them).
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 Dejanae
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 Dejanae and names like it
- Compare Dejanae and DejuanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDejanae peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dejanae since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Dejanae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dejanae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.