Given name
Daksha
“a brilliant man”
Daksha is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “a brilliant man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a brilliant man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Daksha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 137
- 0 boys · 137 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,605 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,605 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 824 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Daksha
- Daksha NagarkarIndian actressborn 1995
- Daksha PattaniGujarati critic and a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi1938–2019
- Daksha VyasIndian writer and literary criticborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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