Dakayla

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 15 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
15
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dakayla by the numbers

Dakayla was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 36 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Dakayla

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dakayla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Dalayla12 in the US (2017)
  • Danayla5 in the US (2017)
  • Danylagod is my judge; a form of Daniel39 in the US (2017)
  • Daniylavariant of Daniel; God is my judge8 in the US (2017)
  • Dayla53 in the US (2017)
  • Dalayza24 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Dakayla

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