Deja

Where Deja comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Deja.

  • Vowel-ended
Deja through the years
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Deja Young born
    American athletics competitor
  3. 1996
    Peak, #182
    1,638 babies named Deja, the most in any year.
  4. 2000
    Deja Foxx born
    American human rights activist, Congressional candidate
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #424.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Deja Foxx · American human rights activist, Congressional candidate, born 2000
  • Deja Young · American athletics competitor, born 1996
  • Deja Davis · American soccer player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.