Daja
Feminine
The j in Daja can be a j, a y or a zh depending on the family. English has one reading, German and Scandinavian another, French a third, and a name spelled this way in America inherits all three possibilities and no way of settling between them.
How old is the name Daja?
Daja first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Daja alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 2,400 people named Daja are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daja most popular?
Daja peaked in 1996, reaching #831 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Daja
A short name has less room for information, and one containing a letter that three languages read differently has less still. That is a genuine trade-off: brevity buys memorability and costs certainty, and a family choosing a name like this is choosing to explain it rather than to have it understood. The record shows it appearing at the end of the nineteen-seventies among a group of very short names — Daja, Tanja, Anja, Raja — all of which sit on the same ambiguity and all of which arrived at once.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name was assembled in the later twentieth century and carries no meaning. Resemblances to words in other languages are coincidences of a four-letter shape.
Pronouncing Daja
DAY-zhuh
Two syllables with the weight at the front. Some families use DAH-yuh, following the German reading of the j, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Daja
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 1996241 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #831reached in 1996
- Change vs 2022
- +180.0%14 in 2023, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dajas among us
people named Daja are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Daja sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Four letters, which is as short as a name gets while staying legible.
- It sits comfortably in front of almost any surname.
- It is genuinely uncommon.
- The j has three possible readings and the name will be said all three ways.
- There is no inherited meaning to pass on.
- It reads clearly as a name of the closing decades of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dajas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Daja are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daja in 2025?
- Daja is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Daja with classmates?
- Daja will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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