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Daijah vs Daila

American parents have registered 2,327 Daijahs since 1880, against 793 Dailas. But in 2025 it was Daila that was commoner, 54 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daijah against Daila, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daijah Daila

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 34 years in which either name was published, Daijah for 22 years and Daila for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daijah Daila
Total US births 2,327793
Most in one year 19591
Babies in 2025 654
Estimated living today 2,300790
Median age today 237
Peak year 19962022
Best rank 975th girls2,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th3,028th
First recorded 19901997
Girls / boys 2,327 / 0793 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Daijahs alive today are over 23; half the Dailas are over 7. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Daijah Daila
England and Wales 88

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: Daijah and Daila.