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Dak

#6,888 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Dakota

Dak has been given to 238 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,888 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Dak, 2025

1 in 276,000

Dak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dak: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dakota

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dak means

Dak is a diminutive of Dakota.

Origin, language, and formation

Dak is used in English and Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dakota.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 238 boys were recorded with the name Dak between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,765 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,780 in 2020 to #6,888 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dak?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,888
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dak was born before 2018 — so the typical Dak is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
238
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Dak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+994
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,892
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 2017 (44)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
82.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,765
2017

Where Dak is used

Across 1910–2025, Dak was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 710,849 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,888
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,892
Best rank ever
#2,765
2017
Peak year
2017
44 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
238
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Dak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DakaiDakshDakarriDakhariDakenDakinSidakDakariiDakingDakwonDakwanDakyrieDakaraiDakarDakodaDakeDakariDakimDakotahDakshithDakodahDaksDakottaDakeem

Sibling names for Dak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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