Daijah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 26 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
26
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5927
3 babies

Daijah by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Daijah. In the US, 26 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 195 babies in 1996, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Daijah

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 Daijah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Danijaha form of Daniel; God is my judge6 in the US (2017)
  • Daija20 in the US (2017)
  • Dajah13 in the US (2017)
  • Dailah5 in the US (2017)
  • Dalilahgentle or delicate; a variant of Delilah178 in the US (2017)
  • Daniyahgod is my judge; a form of Danielle63 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Daijah

Names that are said the same way as Daijah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Daja12 in the US (2017)
  • Dayja6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Daijah

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