Dejah
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 341 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,176since 1973
Dejah over time
Rank among girls' names. Dejah has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,942 | 96 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,486 | 131 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,218 | 165 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,090 | 194 | — | |
| 2000 | #927 | 232 | — | |
| 1999 | #670 | 341 | — | |
| 1998 | #784 | 274 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,091 | 172 | — | |
| 1996 | #979 | 194 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,113 | 159 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dejah! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dejah is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#432 · 1 in 2,303
- Virginia#496 · 1 in 3,326
- Louisiana#578 · 1 in 3,607
- Wisconsin#654 · 1 in 5,006
- North Carolina#684 · 1 in 5,007
Best ever in a state: #162 in District of Columbia, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #432 | 5 | 1 in 2,303 |
| Virginia | #496 | 10 | 1 in 3,326 |
| Louisiana | #578 | 6 | 1 in 3,607 |
| Wisconsin | #654 | 5 | 1 in 5,006 |
| North Carolina | #684 | 8 | 1 in 5,007 |
| Pennsylvania | #716 | 10 | 1 in 5,826 |
| Georgia | #725 | 8 | 1 in 5,346 |
| Illinois | #767 | 12 | 1 in 5,827 |
| Ohio | #794 | 9 | 1 in 6,871 |
| Washington | #808 | 5 | 1 in 5,726 |
| New Jersey | #855 | 6 | 1 in 6,959 |
| Michigan | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,423 |
| Texas | #1,039 | 17 | 1 in 8,229 |
| Florida | #1,501 | 5 | 1 in 14,670 |
| New York | #1,532 | 7 | 1 in 14,429 |
| California | #1,559 | 14 | 1 in 15,918 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dejah
- 634 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #7,885)
- 962 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #7,885)
- 3,970 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 307 spots in 1998 (#1,091 → #784)
- Biggest drop: 257 spots in 2000 (#670 → #927)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1999 at #670 (341 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1998–2000
- Highest: 1 in 5,202 girls born in 1999 were named Dejah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.6% of all girls named Dejah (1,289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #4,420 (1979) | #7,390 |
| 1980s | 130 | #4,455 (1985) | #5,678 |
| 1990s | 1,289 | #670 (1999) | #2,437 |
| 2000s | 1,275 | #927 (2000) | #1,737 |
| 2010s | 360 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,225 |
| 2020s | 82 | #6,691 (2021) | #7,934 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dejah in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 10,120 of them was named Dejah, which outranked 93.3% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,086Coral173
- #1,086Nyasia173
- #1,086Presley173
- #1,091Dejah172
- #1,091Arely172
- #1,091Denisha172
- #1,091Irma172
- #1,096Alesha171
- #1,096Annemarie171
- #1,096Betsy171
Tied with 4 names at #1,091; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.