Dayah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Dayah by the numbers
Dayah was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 10 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Dayah
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 Dayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Dayah
Names that are said the same way as Dayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Daia10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dayah
Nobody has voted for Dayah yet
Vote for Dayah and put it up against all the other baby names
Vote for Dayah