Dacotah — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dacotah

The Social Security Administration has registered 76 babies named Dacotah between 1992 and 2005, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dacotah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Dacotah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dacotah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 57 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Dacotah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dacotah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dacotah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 76 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.