Dakoda
Dakoda is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 69 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,576 among girls’ names and #2,114 among boys’, #4,012 among all names counting both); 4,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,190 Americans named Dakoda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dakoda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dakoda?
#2,114 among boys’ names, 2025
Dakoda rose from #2,195 in 2015 to #2,114 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.3 to 40.4 per million.
191 babies in 2006, the peak
Dakoda peaked in 2006, when 191 babies were given it (131 boys, #1,275 among boys’ names). The 83 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,576 | 69 | #2,114 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,924 | 79 | #1,975 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,780 | 87 | #1,837 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,199 | 81 | #1,921 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,641 | 57 | #2,381 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,194 | 79 | #1,878 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,649 | 46 | #2,739 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,867 | 71 | #2,033 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,874 | 56 | #2,324 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,446 | 54 | #2,391 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,873 | 62 | #2,195 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,508 | 62 | #2,178 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,527 | 65 | #2,073 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,743 | 63 | #2,139 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,406 | 51 | #2,443 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,217 | 83 | #1,782 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,575 | 91 | #1,708 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,724 | 124 | #1,374 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,148 | 128 | #1,327 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,892 | 131 | #1,275 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,597 | 129 | #1,224 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,622 | 153 | #1,052 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,459 | 95 | #1,399 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,495 | 84 | #1,497 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,409 | 87 | #1,429 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,678 | 102 | #1,270 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,973 | 136 | #1,018 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,825 | 108 | #1,160 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,543 | 126 | #1,011 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,322 | 139 | #933 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,059 | 144 | #919 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,389 | 134 | #949 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,768 | 119 | #997 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,725 | 94 | #1,133 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,007 | 62 | #1,439 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 40 | #1,905 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 22 | #2,800 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 18 | #2,984 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,767 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 13 | #3,477 |
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 Dakoda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,260 Americans recorded as Dakoda, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dakoda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dakoda, and how old are they?
4,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,260 Americans ever recorded as Dakoda. The median Dakoda alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 3,002 people named Dakoda (640 women and girls, 2,362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 852 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dakoda born?
The states with the most babies named Dakoda are Texas, California and Florida, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,130 | 0.5× |
| California | 5 | #2,547 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,893 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,311 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dakoda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,024 babies since 1880, Dakoda is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 83 babies (100%), again the most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dakoda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dakoda and names like it
- Compare Dakoda and DacodaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDakoda peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dakoda since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Dakoda.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dakoda alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.