Dejour is a modern name form from French jour, meaning day, or styled after French surname patterns.
Dejour is a creative American given name that draws on the French phrase du jour — "of the day" — repurposing a culinary and journalistic term into something entirely personal and aspirational. In French, soup du jour is the soup the kitchen has made freshest that day; in English-language media, the phrase signals whatever is timely, current, and culturally relevant.
Parents who chose Dejour as a name were, in a sense, declaring their child the most vital thing of the moment — the name of the day, every day. This kind of semantic reappropriation has a long and vibrant history in African American naming traditions, where French words and phrases — LaVon, Deshawn, Deja, Monique — were absorbed into a distinctly American creative naming culture through the twentieth century. The phonetic transformation of "du" to "De-" reflects the same pattern seen in Deja, Dewayne, and Deandre, where the prefix carries its own rhythm and cultural identity independent of its French source.
Dejour sits in a small category of names that are genuinely difficult to place geographically or historically — names that are neither purely invented nor conventionally borrowed, but made new by cultural creativity. Bearers of the name often find it sparks conversation, which may be part of its appeal: a name that invites a story is a name that makes an impression.