Dakoda — #1998 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dakoda

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,285 babies named Dakoda between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dakoda currently holds the #1998 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 153 babies received it in a single year. Dakoda is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 889 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dakoda performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dakoda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 176 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Dakoda in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dakoda 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 3,285 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.