Meaning not yet researched.
Daija: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #804 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #804 in 1997; #15,448 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daija in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,448 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #804.
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Daija: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #804 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 258 (1997).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Daija, making it the 15,448th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,745 places from #9,703 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 10 girls named Daija in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #804, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #5,330 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daija in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 3,065 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,335 babies named Daija.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 166 US girls were named Daija; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Daja (2,399 babies since 1880), Daijah (2,327 babies since 1880), Dajah (2,020 babies since 1880) and Daeja (746 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dayja, Daejah and Dayjah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dayja (537), Daejah (471), Dayjah (275), Dajae (171), Dajai (120), Dahja (29).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Daija in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,448 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,703 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,776 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,722 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,048 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,193 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,099 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,342 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,330 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,517 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2001 | 205 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2000 | 221 | #958 | — | — |
| 1999 | 246 | #874 | — | — |
| 1998 | 252 | #847 | — | — |
| 1997 | 258 | #804 | — | — |
| 1996 | 253 | #809 | — | — |
| 1995 | 203 | #928 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,460 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,563 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,327 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).