Given name & surname

Daja

Daja is a surname. It is used in Albanian.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Daja isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Daja through the years

Babies since 1880
2,399
0 boys · 2,399 girls
Most popular year
1996
241 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−54%
Cooling
050100150198020002025Highest share 19960.0
Daja in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1979–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 14 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 241 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,985 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Daja’s family of names

Daja may belong to the same name family as DAJJA. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Daja’s family in the name graph

DajaDajahDajjaDayaDajanaDaia

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Daja, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Ahjah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dashia

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Daisya

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Darbey

“of the deer park”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Damiesha

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Deirra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Danyea

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Ladajah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Daja’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Daja

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