girls:
5 births since 1994
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
734 births since 1989
#3853 (16th percentile)
overall:
739 births since 1989
#7000 (10th percentile)
The name Daijon is the #7,000 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 739 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,853 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 734 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1994.
Daijon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Daijon is available in 34 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023 (34 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Daijon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daijon reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #780) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Daijon ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 20.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Daijon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #845) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daijon".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Daijon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Daijon is pronounced as DAY-jahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAI-juhn, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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