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Dakari

#837 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dakari has been given to 4,526 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #837 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 396 recorded.

Babies named Dakari, 2025

1 in 11,200

Dakari over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dakari: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dakari means

Dakari is a given name.

The naming story behind Dakari

Wikidata records Dakari as a given name. The entity identifier is Q87238468, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,326 boys were recorded with the name Dakari between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 396 in 2020; its best national rank was #666 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #666 in 2020 to #837 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,469 in 2015 to #837 in 2025.

In the United States, 200 girls were recorded with the name Dakari between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #7,827 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,516 in 2020 to #13,598 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,100 in 2015 to #13,598 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.

How common is Dakari?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
295 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,790
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#837
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dakari 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dakari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dakaris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dakari was born before 2019 — so the typical Dakari is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,326
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (1,985).

Is Dakari 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
−42
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+632
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.5%
Peak was 2020 (396)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#666
2020

Spellings of Dakari

Dakari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 21.5% against Dakari's 2.9%.

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 Dakari is used

Across 2016–2025, Dakari was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 1,613 boys, against 1 in 5,820 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).

262 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 1,613
  2. 2Maryland1 in 1,961
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 2,326
  4. 4Alabama1 in 2,857
  5. 5Georgia1 in 3,125
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 3,226
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 3,226
  8. 8Illinois1 in 3,333

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.

Geographically, Dakari is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 78% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Dakari around the world

Where Dakari 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
    2020–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

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

Notable people named Dakari

People whose public names include Dakari, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dakari by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#837
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 171
Best rank ever
#666
2020
Peak year
2020
396 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,326
Count in 2025
295

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,598
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,082
Best rank ever
#7,827
2019
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
200
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Dakari

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

DakhariDakodaDakotahJakariDamariJacariDemariZakariDakaraiJabariJahariKhariMakariBakariCamariZamariKemariKamariAhmariJavariDakshJamariKhamariTafari

Names with a curve like Dakari

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dakari, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZamirAriesZaydAzaelDamirRemiElielBenicioGatlinSevenCalumZahir

Sibling names for Dakari

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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