Dajah
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · Last seen for boys in 2003 at #8,643
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 181 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,013since 1989
Dajah over time
Rank among girls' names. Dajah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 85 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,254 | 80 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,020 | 91 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #1,594 | 116 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,411 | 134 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,291 | 149 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,099 | 181 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,228 | 148 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,303 | 133 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,164 | 156 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 160 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dajah! It came in at #9,681, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dajah is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#414 · 1 in 2,422
- Mississippi#475 · 1 in 2,436
- Louisiana#555 · 1 in 3,121
- Maryland#601 · 1 in 3,990
- Illinois#658 · 1 in 4,401
Best ever in a state: #210 in District of Columbia, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #414 | 14 | 1 in 2,422 |
| Mississippi | #475 | 5 | 1 in 2,436 |
| Louisiana | #555 | 7 | 1 in 3,121 |
| Maryland | #601 | 6 | 1 in 3,990 |
| Illinois | #658 | 16 | 1 in 4,401 |
| Georgia | #992 | 6 | 1 in 7,423 |
| Michigan | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 8,586 |
| New Jersey | #1,016 | 5 | 1 in 8,297 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,021 | 6 | 1 in 9,716 |
| California | #1,317 | 18 | 1 in 12,279 |
| Florida | #1,342 | 6 | 1 in 12,380 |
| New York | #1,405 | 8 | 1 in 12,590 |
| Texas | #2,149 | 6 | 1 in 23,907 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dajah
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 1999 at #1,099 (181 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,800 girls born in 1999 were named Dajah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 45.6% of all girls named Dajah (918) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #9,681 (1989) | #9,681 |
| 1990s | 875 | #1,099 (1999) | #3,368 |
| 2000s | 918 | #1,291 (2000) | #2,244 |
| 2010s | 200 | #4,023 (2010) | #7,117 |
| 2020s | 13 | #11,090 (2020) | #13,142 |
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.
Dajah in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 11,939 of them was named Dajah, which outranked 92.6% 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).
- #1,219Siera150
- #1,226Janell149
- #1,226Marlen149
- #1,228Dajah148
- #1,228Brandie148
- #1,228Iman148
- #1,228Marjorie148
- #1,236Angeline147
- #1,236Corrina147
- #1,236Danika147
Tied with 7 names at #1,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.