Deja

Where Deja comes from

Deja hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Deja Young born
    American athletics competitor
  3. 1996
    Peak, #182
    1,638 babies named Deja — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2000
    Deja Foxx born
    American human rights activist, Congressional candidate
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #424.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Deja Foxx · American human rights activist, Congressional candidate, born 2000
  • Deja Young · American athletics competitor, born 1996
  • Deja Davis · American soccer player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.