Daija

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births

Peak · girls
1997 · 258 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,065
since 1986

Daija over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Daija has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #804, 1997girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#9,55610
2023#9,61610
2022#6,22919
2021#7,63014
2020#5,00325
2019#5,16325
2018#5,61922
2017#6,04420
2016#7,23016
2015#5,28825
2014#6,45119
2013#4,42232
2012#4,12136
2011#3,91638
2010#3,15952
2009#2,67268
2008#2,58472
2007#2,015101
2006#2,35380
2005#1,924100
2004#1,470137
2003#1,212175
2002#1,165176
2001#1,045205
2000#957221
1999#874246
1998#845252
1997#804258
1996#809253
1995#926203
1994#3,61530
1993#3,50631
1992#3,77328
1991#5,39917
1990#5,83515
1989#5,28616
1988#8,3918
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Daija! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Daija
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 5,386 spots since 2024 (#9,556#14,942)
  • 9,939 spots since 2020 (#5,003#14,942)
  • 9,654 spots since 2015 (#5,288#14,942)
  • Biggest jump: 2,689 spots in 1995 (#3,615#926)
  • Biggest drop: 88 spots in 2001 (#957#1,045)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 1997 at #804 (258 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1995–2000
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,747
  • Highest: 1 in 6,747 girls born in 1997 were named Daija (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 43.6% of all girls named Daija (1,335) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s29#5,286 (1989)#8,196
1990s1,333#804 (1997)#2,639
2000s1,335#957 (2000)#1,740
2010s285#3,159 (2010)#5,141
2020s83#5,003 (2020)#8,829

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.

Daija in 1998

girls
#845
252 births · 1 in 7,012 girls

Top girls' names in 1998

  1. #1Emily26,188
  2. #2Hannah21,376
  3. #3Samantha20,195
  4. #4Sarah19,898
  5. #5Ashley19,875
  6. #6Alexis19,778
  7. #7Taylor18,576
  8. #8Jessica18,239
  9. #9Madison17,787
  10. #10Elizabeth15,193
  11. #845Daija252
More about 1998

girls

1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 7,012 of them was named Daija, which outranked 94.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daija
  1. #842Demi253
  2. #842Serenity253
  3. #842Skyla253
  4. #845Daija252
  5. #845Anya252
  6. #845Charlene252
  7. #845Dianna252
  8. #851Tristan251
  9. #852Aubree250
  10. #852Keri250

Tied with 5 names at #845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 2,123Calista#2,820#697
  2. 1,165Ireland#1,983#818
  3. 1,158Abril#2,116#958
  4. 755Mya#993#238
  5. 619Ally#1,036#417
Fallers
  1. 586Yulissa#424#1,010
  2. 462Moesha#943#1,405
  3. 397Yulisa#985#1,382
  4. 376Tonya#905#1,281
  5. 347Xena#765#1,112

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998