girls:
18 births since 2001
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1973
#3209 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1973
#6295 (19th percentile)
The name Dakarai is the #6,295 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,450 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 18.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,209 (30.0% percentile) for all time with 1,432 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2001.
Dakarai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Dakarai is available in 47 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dakarai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dakarai reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #841) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dakarai ranks #873 for boys (4.2% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 76.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dakarai reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #897) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dakarai".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Dakarai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Dakarai is pronounced as duh-KAH-rai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-KAH-ray, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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