Dakiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- duh-KEE-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Dakiyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Dakiyah come from?
Modern: spelling of Dakiya; modern coinage
Meaning borrowed from Dakiya.
Is Dakiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Dakiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dakiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Dakiyah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2007, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Dakiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dakiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
Names like Dakiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Jaliyah, Aziyah, Kamiyah, Naziyah, Jaziyah, Zamiyah, Hadassah, Samiyah
Names related to Dakiyah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dakiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dakiyah, updated 20 October 2026.