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Dajanae vs Dajour

American parents have registered 689 Dajours since 1880, against 684 Dajanaes. Dajour is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dajanae against Dajour, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dajanae Dajour

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

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Dajanae for 20 years and Dajour for 17 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Dajanae Dajour
Total US births 684689
Most in one year 53113
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 680670
Median age today 2427
Peak year 20001997
Best rank 2,740th girls1,169th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19881990
Girls / boys 684 / 023 / 666

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 Dajours alive today are over 27; half the Dajanaes are over 24. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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