Dakotah
- #4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
- Given to boys 57.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 207 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,151since 1979
Dakotah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #2,821 | 60 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 | #2,715 | 45 |
| 2016 | #2,902 | 58 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 | #2,805 | 42 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #2,708 | 65 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #2,202 | 88 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | #2,088 | 66 |
| 2007 | #2,311 | 83 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 | #1,512 | 100 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 | #1,514 | 94 |
| 2004 | #2,526 | 66 | #1,414 | 100 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #3,334 | 41 | #1,514 | 82 |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 | #1,368 | 93 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | #1,128 | 123 |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | #975 | 147 |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 | #843 | 173 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | #900 | 153 |
| 1996 | #2,084 | 66 | #836 | 171 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | #750 | 204 |
| 1994 | #1,757 | 83 | #728 | 207 |
| 1993 | #2,176 | 61 | #834 | 159 |
| 1992 | #2,078 | 65 | #883 | 143 |
| 1991 | #2,843 | 41 | #1,147 | 92 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 | #1,306 | 72 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #1,452 | 57 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #1,815 | 37 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | #1,725 | 36 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1979
The first year at least five boys were named Dakotah! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dakotah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Dakotah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dakotah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 326 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,949)
- 927 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #3,949)
- Biggest jump: 264 spots in 1992
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 2000
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1994 at #728 (207 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1992–1999
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,332
- Highest: 1 in 9,332 boys born in 1995 were named Dakotah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #728 in 1994, was only 1 in 9,333 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 48.3% of all boys named Dakotah (1,521) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 221 | #1,452 (1989) | #2,841 |
| 1990s | 1,521 | #728 (1994) | #920 |
| 2000s | 874 | #1,128 (2000) | #1,619 |
| 2010s | 401 | #2,682 (2010) | #2,941 |
| 2020s | 129 | #3,949 (2025) | #4,662 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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