Nakota

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Peak · boys
1992 · 11 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
241
since 1991

Nakota over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #9,452, 2005peak #4,872, 1992girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#10,6956
2024#13,4776#10,9386
2023#13,4626#9,7637
2022—#9,8237
2021#11,1468#7,58710
2020—#6,62012
2019—#6,77712
2018#12,4647—
2017—#7,54610
2016#16,2155#5,78915
2015#10,8669#8,0409
2014#16,5135—
2013—#9,6557
2012—#9,7097
2011#11,1819#8,7678
2010#11,2469—
2009—#10,9946
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2007#11,6309#10,9216
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2005#9,45211#7,09610
2004#12,7617#9,9486
2003—#10,8945
2002—#6,52210
2001—#6,9359
2000#15,0315—
1999#11,3857#5,03513
1998#14,1225#6,8438
1997#13,7245#8,1106
1996#10,5677#9,0155
1995#10,5147#6,9927
1994#11,7786#6,9687
1993#11,7806#6,8167
1992—#4,87211
1991#13,1475#5,5219
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Nakota! It came in at #5,521, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2000, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Nakota is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Nakota in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Nakota
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 243 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #10,695)
  • 4,075 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #10,695)
  • 2,655 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 1992 at #4,872 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1996, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 126,516
  • Highest: 1 in 126,516 boys born in 2016 were named Nakota (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,872 in 1992, was only 1 in 181,583 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 30.3% of all boys named Nakota (73) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s73#4,872 (1992)#6,686
2000s52#6,522 (2002)#9,044
2010s68#5,789 (2016)#8,040
2020s48#6,620 (2020)#9,238

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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