Dakari
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #837 for boys in 2025, 295 births
Given to boys 95.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 396 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,326since 1974
Dakari over time
Rank among boys' names. Dakari has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #837 | 295 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #795 | 316 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #770 | 334 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #786 | 322 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #774 | 322 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #665 | 396 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #886 | 247 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #915 | 235 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,170 | 160 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #1,467 | 117 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,468 | 114 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,557 | 101 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,835 | 77 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #1,739 | 87 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,665 | 94 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #1,781 | 82 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,801 | 72 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | — | #2,031 | 56 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | — | #1,935 | 56 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #2,049 | 49 |
| 1999 | — | #2,462 | 36 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,126 | 43 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,260 | 37 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | — | #3,030 | 23 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,327 | 13 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
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| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dakari! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dakari
- 42 spots since 2024 (#795 → #837)
- 172 spots since 2020 (#665 → #837)
- 631 spots since 2015 (#1,468 → #837)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 2018 (#1,170 → #915)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2021 (#665 → #774)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2020 at #665 (396 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,359 boys born in 2020 were named Dakari (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,790 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 45.9% of all boys named Dakari (1,985) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #4,157 (1978) | #5,056 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,951 (1987) | #6,951 |
| 1990s | 233 | #2,126 (1998) | #3,400 |
| 2000s | 696 | #1,629 (2004) | #1,872 |
| 2010s | 1,383 | #886 (2019) | #1,382 |
| 2020s | 1,985 | #665 (2020) | #771 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dakari in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 262,056 of them was named Dakari, which outranked 22.8% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,190Zavier7
- #4,190Zebulon7
- #4,190Zoltan7
- #4,634Dakari6
- #4,634Aamir6
- #4,634Aashish6
- #4,634Abayomi6
- #5,227Adante5
- #5,227Adaryl5
- #5,227Adedayo5
Tied with 592 names at #4,634; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.