Dayja

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dayja by the numbers

Dayja was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 50 babies in 1996, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Dayja

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

  • Dayacompassion; kindness30 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Dayra62 in the US (2017)
  • Dayla53 in the US (2017)
  • Dayna38 in the US (2017)
  • Daija20 in the US (2017)
  • Daja12 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Dayja

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

Names about as common as Dayja

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