Deja is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Deja is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,745 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,744 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Deja.
Deja is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Deja - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 174 in 1996. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Deja really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Deja was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
82 babies were named Deja in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,807,706 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Deja ranked 2,031 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Deja is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Deja and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Deja, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Deja
Deja
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
J
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
J
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Deja sounds like this:
