MEANING & HISTORY
What does Dakila mean?
Dakila’s Philippine word senses concern greatness or standing far above the ordinary in scale, ability or quality. Diksiyonaryo.ph labels the adjective for Kapampangan and Tagalog and distinguishes its different contexts.
The catalogue also retains an exact Dakila name-field occurrence. That record establishes the personal-name spelling separately from the dictionary’s account of the word.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Dakila in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
DAKILACSV record 16,630 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Dakila in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Dakila
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Asila♀Of noble origin in the Arabic name tradition
- Danica♀Morning star
- Danilo♂Form of Daniel; God is my judge
- Danita♀Feminine diminutive of Daniel
- Daria♀Feminine form of Darius
- Maila♀Finnish familiar form of Maria; other accounts exist
- Dahlia·Dahlia flower
- Daisy♀The daisy flower
What rhymes with Dakila?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Dakila further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Diksiyonaryo.ph — dakilà (opens in a new tab)
Kapampangan/Tagalog adjective senses of outstanding scale, ability and quality; not independent proof of a family’s naming intention.