Dejia
Dejia was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 228 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dejia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dejia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,222, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1998, the peak
Dejia peaked in 1998, when 28 girls were given it, #4,053 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,222 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,882 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,610 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,413 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,656 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,529 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,050 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,006 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,951 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,053 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 22 | #4,694 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,080 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,064 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,854 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,696 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,208 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dejia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dejia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dejia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dejia, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Dejia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 24 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Dejia (213 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 20,934 babies since 1880, Dejia is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 67 babies recorded by SSA was a Dejia (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 Dejia
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 Dejia and names like it
- Compare Dejia and DejaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDejia peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dejia since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Dejia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dejia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.