Meaning not yet researched.
Dakari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 295 in 2025. Its best rank was #666 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #666 in 2020; #837 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Dakari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#837 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #666.
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Dakari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 295 boys in 2025. Peak: #666 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 396 (2020).
In 2025, 295 US boys were named Dakari, making it the 837th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #795 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 316 boys named Dakari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #666, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 396. For comparison, it was #1,469 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dakari in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 4,526 US babies have been given the name, 4.4% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,042 babies named Dakari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,744 US boys were named Dakari; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 396. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,790 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dakari ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #360 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dacari, Dakarri and Dacarri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dacari (443), Dakarri (185), Dacarri (61), Dakarii (57), Dakaria (49), Dakyrie (40), Dakarie (39), Dakeria (16), Dakaree (15), Daecari (14), Dakori (7), Dacarii (5), and more.
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 Dakari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 9 | #360 | — |
| Maryland | 14 | #368 | #725 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #416 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #429 | — |
| Georgia | 22 | #484 | #854 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #498 | — |
| Tennessee | 15 | #502 | #941 |
| Missouri | 11 | #531 | — |
| Illinois | 17 | #547 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #607 | #771 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #626 | #1,153 |
| Alabama | 7 | #634 | — |
| Ohio | 13 | #680 | #798 |
| Florida | 23 | #682 | #1,296 |
| Virginia | 8 | #819 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #874 | #677 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #943 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,073 | #2,184 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,128 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,718 | #2,335 |
| New York | 5 | #1,820 | #1,503 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,602 | 295 | #837 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,872 | 316 | #795 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,422 | 334 | #770 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,646 | 322 | #786 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,136 | 322 | #775 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,521 | 396 | #666 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,831 | 247 | #887 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,253 | 235 | #916 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,906 | 160 | #1,173 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,040 | 117 | #1,468 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,105 | 114 | #1,469 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,319 | 106 | #1,516 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,505 | 101 | #1,558 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,418 | 139 | #1,268 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,436 | 77 | #1,837 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,562 | 87 | #1,743 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,687 | 94 | #1,669 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,192 | 85 | #1,762 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,954 | 82 | #1,784 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,765 | 78 | #1,775 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,333 | 72 | #1,809 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,086 | 79 | #1,633 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,034 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,009 | 45 | #2,303 |
| 2001 | — | — | 56 | #1,938 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,605 | 49 | #2,059 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,473 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,129 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,268 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,222 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,919 | 22 | #3,117 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,043 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,059 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,370 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,537 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,063 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,176 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,233 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,020 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,773 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,733 |
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).