Dakotah — #4762 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dakotah

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,123 babies named Dakotah between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dakotah currently holds the #4762 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 207 babies received it in a single year. Dakotah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,278 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dakotah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,521 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dakotah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 121 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dakotah in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dakotah 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 3,123 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.