girls:
16.2k births since 1962
#1179 (79th percentile)
boys:
86 births since 1979
#4500 (2nd percentile)
overall:
16.2k births since 1962
#2033 (74th percentile)
The name Deja is the #2,033 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,239 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 73.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,179 (79.4% percentile) for all time with 16,153 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #4,500 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1979.
Deja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Deja is available in 54 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (54 years for girls and 13 years for boys). 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 Deja has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Deja reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 78.9% percentile (ranked #182) with 854 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 854 births per million (ranked 78.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Deja ranks #880 for girls (7.1% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 4.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Deja reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deja".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Deja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.8% confident that Deja is pronounced as DAY-zhah, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAY-juh, at 18.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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