Dejah
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 341 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,176since 1973
Dejah over time
Rank among girls' names. Dejah has never cracked the top 600 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,942 | 96 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,486 | 131 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,218 | 165 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,090 | 194 | — | |
| 2000 | #927 | 232 | — | |
| 1999 | #670 | 341 | — | |
| 1998 | #784 | 274 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,091 | 172 | — | |
| 1996 | #979 | 194 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,113 | 159 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dejah! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dejah
- 634 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #7,885)
- 962 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #7,885)
- 3,970 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 307 spots in 1998 (#1,091 → #784)
- Biggest drop: 257 spots in 2000 (#670 → #927)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1999 at #670 (341 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1998–2000
- Highest: 1 in 5,202 girls born in 1999 were named Dejah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.6% of all girls named Dejah (1,289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #4,420 (1979) | #7,390 |
| 1980s | 130 | #4,455 (1985) | #5,678 |
| 1990s | 1,289 | #670 (1999) | #2,437 |
| 2000s | 1,275 | #927 (2000) | #1,737 |
| 2010s | 360 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,225 |
| 2020s | 82 | #6,691 (2021) | #7,934 |
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.
Dejah in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 6,449 of them was named Dejah, which outranked 95.3% 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).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 382,273 of them was named Dejah, which outranked 14.9% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,680 names at #9,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.