Dejah
Meaning of Dejah
Dejah constitutes a feminine appellation of modern literary provenance, originating in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom canon as the designation of Princess Dejah Thoris; its inception represents a creative toponym rather than a derivative of established onomastic lineages, albeit with latent echoes of the French adverb déjà. In the United States, the name’s incidence has persistently hovered within the lower tier of the Social Security Administration’s top 1,000 since the late twentieth century, evidencing a nuanced oscillation—most recently manifest in fifteen recorded usages in 2024 (rank 935)—and thus signalling a measured, if modest, resurgence. Phonetically articulated in American English as /diˈdʒɑ/, it employs a bisyllabic structure with final‐syllable stress that contributes to its sonorous quality. While absent from traditional etymological roots, Dejah accrues associative weight from its narrative origins, connoting attributes of aristocratic resolve, otherworldly intrigue, and a pioneering spirit, factors that may inform its selective adoption by parents in search of a name both distinctive and resonant.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as dee-JAH (/diˈdʒɑ/)
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Notable People Named Dejah
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