Daja

girls:

2.4k births since 1979

#3533 (38th percentile)

overall:

2.4k births since 1979

#5423 (30th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Daja is the #5,423 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,399 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 29.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,533 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 2,399 births since 1979.

Daja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Daja is available in 43 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023. 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.

For girls, Daja reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 27.5% percentile (ranked #623) with 126 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 126 births per million (ranked 27.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Daja ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daja".

1979 2023 19792023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,399
Peak Births
241
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
27.5%
Current Percentile
1.0%
Peak Rank
#623
Current Rank
#938
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Daja

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Daja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 31.7% confident that Daja is pronounced as DAY-zhuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-juh, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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31.7%
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DAH-juh (2 syllables)
22.0% confidence
D AA1 JH AH0
DUH-juh (2 syllables)
19.5% confidence
D AH1 JH AH0
DAH-zhuh (2 syllables)
7.3% confidence
D AA1 ZH AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D EY1 ZH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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