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Dakarai

#3,679 in 2025Boys' name

Rejoice

Dakarai has been given to 1,511 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,679 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Dakarai, 2025

1 in 111,000

Dakarai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dakarai: meaning, origin, and history

Rejoice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dakarai means

Dakarai means “rejoice”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,493 boys were recorded with the name Dakarai between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,103 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,557 in 2020 to #3,679 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,691 in 2015 to #3,679 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Dakarai between 2001 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2001; its best national rank was #13,920 in 2001.

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.

How common is Dakarai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,679
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dakarai 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dakarai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dakarais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dakarai was born before 2008 — so the typical Dakarai is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,493
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Dakarai 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
+34
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,122
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−988
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2009 (65)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,103
2009

Spellings of Dakarai

Dakarai is not the most common spelling — Damari is, with 22.5% against Dakarai's 6.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dakarai is used

Across 2016–2025, Dakarai was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 94,773 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Dakarai around the world

Where Dakarai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Dakarai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,679
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,122
Best rank ever
#2,103
2009
Peak year
2009
65 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,493
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,920
2001
Peak year
2001
6 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dakarai

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

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Sibling names for Dakarai

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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