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 | ||
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| 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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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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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.
Where Dakari is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#353 · 1 in 1,398
- Maryland#364 · 1 in 1,636
- South Carolina#414 · 1 in 1,767
- Mississippi#415 · 1 in 1,548
- Georgia#482 · 1 in 2,283
Best ever in a state: #216 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #353 | 9 | 1 in 1,398 |
| Maryland | #364 | 14 | 1 in 1,636 |
| South Carolina | #414 | 12 | 1 in 1,767 |
| Mississippi | #415 | 7 | 1 in 1,548 |
| Georgia | #482 | 22 | 1 in 2,283 |
| Louisiana | #487 | 9 | 1 in 2,126 |
| Tennessee | #499 | 15 | 1 in 2,451 |
| Missouri | #518 | 11 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Illinois | #544 | 17 | 1 in 2,915 |
| Michigan | #601 | 13 | 1 in 3,092 |
| North Carolina | #621 | 15 | 1 in 3,431 |
| Alabama | #622 | 7 | 1 in 3,074 |
| Ohio | #676 | 13 | 1 in 4,041 |
| Florida | #681 | 23 | 1 in 4,154 |
| Virginia | #798 | 8 | 1 in 4,657 |
| Indiana | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,277 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,628 |
| Texas | #1,070 | 21 | 1 in 8,336 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| California | #1,687 | 9 | 1 in 19,497 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 267,878 of them was named Dakari, which outranked 23.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #11,932Zyaria7
- #11,932Zyleigh7
- #11,932Zyniah7
- #13,208Dakari6
- #13,208Aadhirai6
- #13,208Aadhyasri6
- #13,208Aafia6
- #14,942Aadhini5
- #14,942Aadriti5
- #14,942Aaima5
Tied with 1,733 names at #13,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 5,790 of them was named Dakari, which outranked 94.0% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.