Dejah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DAY-zha
- Origin
- French
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Dejah is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “already”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Dejah mean?
French: spelling of Deja
“already”
Dejah Thoris is the Martian princess in Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, first serialized in 1912.
Is Dejah a girl's or a boy's name?
Dejah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dejah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Dejah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 341 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the girls named Dejah in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 78 girls in the US were given Dejah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,009, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
Dejah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,772 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,003 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,082 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,914 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,348 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,511 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,522 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,842 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,202 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,270 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,267 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,015 |
| 2006 | 97 | #2,031 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,121 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,941 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,485 |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,217 |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,089 |
| 2000 | 232 | #926 |
| 1999 | 341 | #669 |
| 1998 | 274 | #784 |
| 1997 | 172 | #1,090 |
| 1996 | 194 | #978 |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,110 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,872 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,820 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,962 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,930 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,830 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,661 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,453 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,221 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,475 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,714 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,531 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,419 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
Names like Dejah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Hadassah Farah Selah Summer Maya Zainab Farrah Kaliyah Salma Zaira Amaya
Other spellings of Dejah
Names related to Dejah
More French names
Eleanor Beau Esme Darcie Darcy Genevieve Amy Esmae Arleth Elle Russell Monty Mallory Percy Lacey Belle
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dejah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dejah, updated 20 October 2026.