Girl · French
Deja
Say it: DAY-zhah
Meaning
From French déjà 'already', familiar from the phrase déjà vu.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Mostly used in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 16,003 babies given this name since 1962
- At its height in 1996, about 1 in 1,100 girls
- 69 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Dejah, Daja
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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