Daja
Recorded 1979–2023 · United States
Daja was most popular in 1996, when 241 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,485 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,399 people named Daja.
Daja over time
How old is the name Daja?
Daja first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1979, which makes it about 46 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 43 of the 47 years since.
How many people are named Daja?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,399 American births named Daja between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,367 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Daja in 2025?
Daja was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Daja getting more or less popular?
Daja is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 9 births a year, against 21 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -58% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Daja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Daja is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,399 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Daja?
Roughly 2,367 Americans named Daja are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 27 years old, and half are between 23 and 30. That is a narrow band: Daja arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Daja is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org