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Dejah vs Dejanae

American parents have registered 3,181 Dejahs since 1880, against 1,111 Dejanaes. Dejah is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dejah against Dejanae, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dejah Dejanae

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 51 years in which either name was published, Dejah for 47 years and Dejanae for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Dejah Dejanae
Total US births 3,1811,111
Most in one year 34175
Babies in 2025 135
Estimated living today 3,1001,100
Median age today 2524
Peak year 19992002
Best rank 670th girls2,199th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th14,942nd
First recorded 19731987
Girls / boys 3,176 / 51,111 / 0

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

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

Country Dejah Dejanae
England and Wales 109

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: Dejah and Dejanae.