Dakarai
Dakarai was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,679 among boys’ names; 1,511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Dakarai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dakarai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dakarai?
#3,679 among boys’ names, 2025
Dakarai fell from #2,691 in 2015 to #3,679 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 17.6 per million.
65 babies in 2008, the peak
Dakarai peaked in 2008, when 65 babies were given it (59 boys, #2,242 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,679 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,713 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,904 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,349 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,511 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,557 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,108 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,639 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,642 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,173 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,691 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,548 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,368 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,334 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,807 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,123 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,103 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,242 | 28.9 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,539 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,252 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,330 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,348 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,679 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,511 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,814 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,480 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,566 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,868 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,264 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,543 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,776 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,697 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,386 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,948 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,161 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,459 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,149 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,935 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,716 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,589 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,743 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,595 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,581 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,860 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,955 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,256 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,975 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,020 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,244 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dakarai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,511 Americans recorded as Dakarai, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dakarai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dakarai, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,511 Americans ever recorded as Dakarai. The median Dakarai alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 990 people named Dakarai (46 women and girls, 944 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 58 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 739 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 512 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,409 babies since 1880, Dakarai is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 443 babies (6.8%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dakarai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dakarai and names like it
- Compare Dakarai and DakariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDakarai peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dakarai since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dakarai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dakarai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.