Meaning not yet researched.
Dakarai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,104 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,104 in 2009; #3,680 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dakarai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,680 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,104.
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Dakarai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,104 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 65 (2009).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Dakarai, making it the 3,680th most common boys’ name of the year, up 35 places from #3,715 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 30 boys named Dakarai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,104, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #2,692 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dakarai in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 1,511 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 492 babies named Dakarai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 388 US boys were named Dakarai; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dakira, Dakyra and Dakara are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dakira (57), Dakyra (56), Dakara (12), Dakera (10), Dakyrah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dakarai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,680 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,715 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,905 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,351 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,514 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,558 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,111 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,640 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,643 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,174 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,692 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,550 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,369 |
| 2012 | — | — | 55 | #2,335 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,808 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,124 |
| 2009 | — | — | 65 | #2,104 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,856 | 59 | #2,243 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,539 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,253 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,334 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,579 | 48 | #2,352 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,683 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,515 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,927 | 33 | #2,819 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,485 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,570 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,871 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,267 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,548 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,781 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,702 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,392 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,955 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,168 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,466 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,156 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,941 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,720 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,591 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,745 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,597 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,583 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,862 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,956 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,258 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #2,976 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,022 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,246 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).