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Daijah vs Daithi

American parents have registered 2,327 Daijahs since 1880, against 22 Daithis. Daijah is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daijah against Daithi, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daijah Daithi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daijah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Daijah had 7 and Daithi had 6.

Side by side

  Daijah Daithi
Total US births 2,32722
Most in one year 1956
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 2,30020
Median age today 232
Peak year 19962023
Best rank 975th girls10,821st boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19902016
Girls / boys 2,327 / 00 / 22

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Daijahs alive today are over 23; half the Daithis are over 2. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Daijah Daithi
England and Wales 857

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daijah and Daithi.