Deja Girl
How popular is Deja?
#3,028 girl name in 2025
54 baby girls were named Deja in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
Deja popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,028 for girls (▼ 171 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 54 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-57% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,685 in 2015, #2,416 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1996 (1,638 girls) |
| Highest rank | #182 in 1996 |
| First recorded | 1962 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Deja counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Deja family of names ranked #2,001 for girls in 2025 (#1,927 the year before), with 67 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Deja | 54 | 81% |
| Dejah | 13 | 19% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Deja is most popular
Babies named Deja per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Deja by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,577 |
| 1970s | 152 | #2,621 |
| 1980s | 951 | #675 |
| 1990s | 8,271 | #182 |
| 2000s | 5,238 | #336 |
| 2010s | 1,237 | #1,287 |
| 2020s | 420 | #2,253 |
Girl names about as popular as Deja
Questions
- Is Deja a boy or girl name?
- Deja is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Deja were girls.
- How popular is the name Deja?
- 54 baby girls were named Deja in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
- When was Deja most popular?
- Deja peaked in 1996, when 1,638 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #182 in 1996.
- How many people are named Deja?
- 16,360 babies have been named Deja in the US since 1880. We estimate about 16,142 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Deja most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Deja was most common in Florida, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.