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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#290 · 1 in 1,906
- Minnesota#320 · 1 in 2,841
- Kansas#323 · 1 in 2,147
- Michigan#503 · 1 in 4,966
- Indiana#518 · 1 in 5,373
Best ever in a state: #163 in South Dakota, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #290 | 10 | 1 in 1,906 |
| Minnesota | #320 | 10 | 1 in 2,841 |
| Kansas | #323 | 7 | 1 in 2,147 |
| Michigan | #503 | 12 | 1 in 4,966 |
| Indiana | #518 | 7 | 1 in 5,373 |
| Washington | #573 | 6 | 1 in 5,612 |
| Tennessee | #604 | 5 | 1 in 6,878 |
| Louisiana | #678 | 5 | 1 in 5,337 |
| Pennsylvania | #691 | 7 | 1 in 9,764 |
| Ohio | #762 | 6 | 1 in 11,720 |
| Texas | #1,051 | 10 | 1 in 15,585 |
| New York | #1,219 | 7 | 1 in 16,962 |
| California | #1,228 | 11 | 1 in 23,050 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dakotah
- 752 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #3,949)
- 326 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,949)
- 927 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #3,949)
- Biggest jump: 264 spots in 1992 (#1,147 → #883)
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 2000 (#975 → #1,128)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1994 at #728 (207 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1992–1999
- 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
- 48.3% of all boys named Dakotah (1,521) were born in this decade
- 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.
Dakotah in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 26,561 of them was named Dakotah, which outranked 86.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,058Priscila67
- #2,058Vannessa67
- #2,058Wynter67
- #2,084Dakotah66
- #2,084Adria66
- #2,084Alanah66
- #2,084Ashlei66
- #2,106Allana65
- #2,106Antionette65
- #2,106Brienna65
Tied with 21 names at #2,084; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 11,078 of them was named Dakotah, which outranked 92.1% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).