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Deyjah

Gender
Girl
Say it
DAY-ja
Origin
Modern

Deyjah is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Deyjah come from?

Modern: modern American coinage, perhaps a respelling of Dejah

Is Deyjah a girl's or a boy's name?

Deyjah is a girls' name.

How popular is Deyjah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Deyjah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 10 in 20122022
Deyjah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20225#15,300
20217#12,201
20200–
201910#9,730
201810#9,801
20178#11,611
20166#14,326
20156#14,477
20147#13,063
20130–
201210#10,424
20110–
20100–
20097#13,698
20086#15,399
20075#17,630
20060–
20055#16,455
20047#12,754
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511

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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, “Deyjah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/deyjah, updated 20 October 2026.