Daija
Girl · DAY-zha · Modern
Daija is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Daija mean?
Modern: variant of Deja, from French deja
Usually seen as a form of Deja, from the French word déjà, 'already', as in déjà vu.
- Say it
- DAY-zha
Is Daija a girl's or a boy's name?
Daija is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Daija in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 65% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Daija, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 1997, with 258 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
2025 had fewer girls named Daija than any year since 1987.
Half of all the girls named Daija in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 78 girls in the US were given Daija or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,009, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Daija in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,119 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,915 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,158 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,671 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,584 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,015 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,353 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,923 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,469 |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,211 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,164 |
| 2001 | 205 | #1,044 |
| 2000 | 221 | #956 |
| 1999 | 246 | #873 |
| 1998 | 252 | #845 |
| 1997 | 258 | #804 |
| 1996 | 253 | #809 |
| 1995 | 203 | #923 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,610 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,501 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,767 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,829 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,280 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
Names like Daija
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Daija
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