Dakari
Dakari was given to 295 boys in 2025, #837 among boys’ names; 4,526 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,480 Americans named Dakari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dakari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dakari?
#837 among boys’ names, 2025
Dakari rose from #1,469 in 2015 to #837 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.17 per 1,000.
408 babies in 2020, the peak
Dakari peaked in 2020, when 408 babies were given it (396 boys, #666 among boys’ names). The 301 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 295 | #837 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 316 | #795 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 334 | #770 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 322 | #786 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 322 | #775 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 396 | #666 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 247 | #887 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 235 | #916 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,173 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,468 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,469 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,516 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 77 | #1,836 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 87 | #1,742 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 94 | #1,668 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 85 | #1,762 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 82 | #1,784 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 72 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,630 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,030 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,299 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 56 | #1,934 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,055 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,469 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,126 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,265 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,053 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,363 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,530 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,169 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,731 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dakari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,526 Americans recorded as Dakari, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 295 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dakari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dakari, and how old are they?
4,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,526 Americans ever recorded as Dakari. The median Dakari alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,005 people named Dakari (142 women and girls, 1,863 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,170 |
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).
Where are babies named Dakari born?
The states with the most babies named Dakari are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 23 | #682 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 22 | #484 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,073 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | #547 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #626 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #502 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 14 | #368 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 13 | #607 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 13 | #680 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 12 | #416 | 2.1× |
Where Dakari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dakari is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1974 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dakari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,436 babies since 1880, Dakari is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 301 of their 446 babies (67%), again the most given.
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 Dakari
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 Dakari and names like it
- Compare Dakari and DakaraiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDakari peaked in 2020.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dakari since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Dakari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dakari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.