girls:
13 births since 1993
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
824 births since 1964
#3763 (18th percentile)
overall:
837 births since 1964
#6902 (11th percentile)
The name Dj is the #6,902 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 837 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,763 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 824 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 1993.
Dj first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Dj is available in 53 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 2 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 Dj has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dj reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #735) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dj is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #889 (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million.
For girls, Dj reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% 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 "Dj".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Dj. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Dj is pronounced as djay, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEED-ZAY, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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