Dacoda
Dacoda was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 661 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dacoda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dacoda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,424, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1998, the peak
Dacoda peaked in 1998, when 55 babies were given it (45 boys, #2,071 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,424 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,049 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,680 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #12,452 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,521 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #12,646 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,828 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,550 | 9 | #8,278 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,865 | 11 | #7,313 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,239 | 13 | #6,461 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | #8,633 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,677 | 20 | #4,543 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,905 | 18 | #4,666 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,566 | 44 | #2,494 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,326 | 24 | #3,642 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,992 | 22 | #3,805 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,341 | 28 | #3,153 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,549 | 28 | #3,084 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 40 | #2,266 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,723 | 45 | #2,071 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,423 | 33 | #2,461 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,984 | 32 | #2,444 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,900 | 32 | #2,400 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 23 | #3,036 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,265 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,752 | 22 | #3,021 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 16 | #3,669 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 10 | #5,053 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dacoda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 661 Americans recorded as Dacoda, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dacoda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dacoda, and how old are they?
An estimated 647 Americans named Dacoda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 569 people named Dacoda (129 women and girls, 440 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Dacoda?
Dacoda is a less common spelling of Dakoda: SSA has recorded 661 Dacoda and 4,260 Dakoda since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,024 babies since 1880, Dacoda is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 83 babies recorded by SSA was a Dacoda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Dacoda and names like it
- Compare Dacoda and DakodaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDacoda peaked in 1998.
- Oregon’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dacoda since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Dacoda.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dacoda alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.