Dakar

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Senegal: capital city and major west African harbor

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dakar is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Senegal: capital city and major west African harbor

Sources 1

  • African Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dakar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Dakar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—21Dakar10
PL Poland—9——
US United States—6—23
AU Australia—1——
EC Ecuador—1——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dakar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Mexico, Senegal

    Also written Dàkar

  • Arabic name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Dakār, Dakàr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Daka̜r

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dakar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Dakar (the capital city of Senegal)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, city, Senegal

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Basque, Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of ekarri (“to bring”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Slovak, Dakar (the capital of Senegal)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Maltese, mule

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Dakar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—36#52,302
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—21#77,117
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#141,377
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#128,791
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#193,315
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#27,490
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#3,164
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dakar mean, and where does it come from?
Senegal: capital city and major west African harbor Recorded by African Names.
In which country does Dakar have the most bearers?
Dakar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled dakar.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dakar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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