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Daksha

#13,601 in 2025Girls' name

Able, competent

Daksha has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #13,601 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Daksha, 2025

1 in 553,000

Daksha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daksha: meaning, origin, and history

Able, competent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daksha means

Daksha means “able, competent”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Daksha is used in Hinduism.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd̪ɐk.ʂɐ/ for Daksha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 girls were recorded with the name Daksha between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2012; its best national rank was #8,744 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,456 in 2020 to #13,601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,075 in 2015 to #13,601 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 Daksha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,601
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daksha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daksha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dakshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daksha was born before 2016 — so the typical Daksha is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
137
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Choose a decade

2010s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Daksha 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
−2,260
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,145
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,526
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2012 (13)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,744
2012

Spellings of Daksha

Daksha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 31.0% against Daksha's 0.04%.

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 Daksha is used

Across 1910–2025, Daksha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Daksha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daksha around the world

Where Daksha 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
    2010–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daksha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,145
Best rank ever
#8,744
2012
Peak year
2012
13 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Daksha

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

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Sibling names for Daksha

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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