The invention provides a dominant wave (DW) automatic frequency tracking numerical receiver. The numerical receiver not only has the function of radar numerical intermediate-frequency (IF) receiving, but also realizes numerical automatic frequency tracking and locking received by radar, and the system does not need traditional automatic frequency control loop circuits and external frequency adjustment components. The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the IF DW and the IF echo wave channels of the receiver are received by wideband, the receiving bandwidth is determined according to the frequency coverage really needed by a radar system. The invention is mainly characterized in that the receiver carries out wideband sampling and buffers DW data received from the radar, the DW power spectrum is obtained by real-time numerical FFT transformation, the center of gravity of unilateral band spectrum is calculated, the frequency estimation of DW is obtained by the value of the center of gravity of spectrum and is converted into corresponding numerical control oscillator (NCO) frequency control word, the frequency control word obtained by calculation is used to control the frequency of NCO under synchronous trigger to realize automatic tracking of the DW frequency of NCO, AD sampling is carried out on the radar echo signal and then orthogonal down-conversion is carried out on the radar echo signal and the numerical frequency signal generated by NCO, the echo wave video IQ signal is obtained after IF matched filtering, and frequency adjustable components are only NCO. When DW frequency is calculated, the DW power is simultaneously calculated to judge whether the current DW input is valid or not, and if the DW is invalid, the search of system frequency is started. A timing sequence generating circuit generates AD sampling clock, generates DW sampling control sequence and data latching sequence according to trigger signals, and provides NCO clock.