boy's name

Deejay

  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 219

Deejay is a boy's name. In 2025 it was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2014, when 12 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 663,130 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1971.

Deejay over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Deejay by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 10
1990s 26
2000s 49
2010s 66
2020s (to 2025) 33

How popular is Deejay?

In 2025, Deejay was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Deejay is used

Canada #2,652 6 in 2019
England & Wales as Dee-Jay #5,089 3 in 2017
United States #12,206 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Deejay is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Dee-Jay Dee-Jay is Deejay written with a hyphen, recorded mostly in England and Wales. 6

Names that peaked alongside Deejay

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Deejay also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Deejay over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Deejay

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Deejay — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Deejay

How popular is the name Deejay?

In 2025, Deejay was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Deejay a girl's or a boy's name?

Deejay is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Deejay most popular?

Deejay peaked in 2014, when 12 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Deejay a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Deejay currently ranks #12,206 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.