Daeja

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Daeja by the numbers

Daeja was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 66 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Daeja

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Daeja. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Dejaalready seen, from déjà vu105 in the US (2017)
  • Daenajudge or judging; from avestan daena6 in the US (2017)
  • Daija20 in the US (2017)
  • Daja12 in the US (2017)
  • Dayja6 in the US (2017)
  • Daela5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Daeja

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