Dakari
Dakari is ranked 793rd among boys in 2024 (316 births). Its best rank was 666th, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #793down 23 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3160.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020396 births
- Best rank
- #666in 2020
- Since 1974
- 4,225people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,031 boys have been named Dakari in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 396 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2020s alone account for 42%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 194 girls have also been given it, 4.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Dakari was the 666th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Dakari
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Damirpeak 2024
- Alessiopeak 2024
- Zenpeak 2022
- Jasielpeak 2024
- Khaipeak 2023
- Anakinpeak 2023
- Teopeak 2024
- Colesonpeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.