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Daija vs Daimon

American parents have registered 3,065 Daijas since 1880, against 802 Daimons. But in 2025 it was Daimon that was commoner, 18 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daija against Daimon, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daija Daimon

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 54 years in which either name was published, Daija for 37 years and Daimon for 17 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Daija Daimon
Total US births 3,065802
Most in one year 25833
Babies in 2025 518
Estimated living today 3,000780
Median age today 2524
Peak year 19972003
Best rank 804th girls2,922nd boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd5,208th
First recorded 19861968
Girls / boys 3,065 / 00 / 802

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Daija Daimon
England and Wales 74

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: Daija and Daimon.