Dakotah
Dakotah is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 27 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,089 among girls’ names and #3,968 among boys’, #4,858 among all names counting both); 5,465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Dakotah every year since 2010.
An estimated 5,360 Americans named Dakotah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dakotah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dakotah?
#3,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Dakotah fell from #3,038 in 2015 to #3,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 15.8 per million.
290 babies in 1994, the peak
Dakotah peaked in 1994, when 290 babies were given it (207 boys, #727 among boys’ names). The 62 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,089 | 27 | #3,968 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,942 | 21 | #4,729 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,128 | 16 | #5,707 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,829 | 19 | #5,059 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,649 | 23 | #4,387 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,101 | 23 | #4,299 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,182 | 28 | #3,812 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,970 | 37 | #3,115 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,025 | 45 | #2,721 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,911 | 44 | #2,734 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,481 | 38 | #3,038 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,816 | 42 | #2,816 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,733 | 38 | #2,963 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,715 | 42 | #2,826 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,954 | 42 | #2,808 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,204 | 45 | #2,690 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,974 | 64 | #2,123 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,639 | 66 | #2,093 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,314 | 71 | #1,982 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,465 | 100 | #1,512 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,636 | 94 | #1,513 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,530 | 100 | #1,415 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,413 | 81 | #1,563 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,346 | 82 | #1,512 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,772 | 93 | #1,368 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,742 | 123 | #1,129 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,916 | 147 | #974 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,847 | 173 | #842 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,048 | 153 | #900 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,088 | 171 | #834 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,732 | 204 | #747 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,753 | 207 | #727 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,175 | 159 | #832 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,080 | 143 | #881 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,846 | 92 | #1,142 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,810 | 72 | #1,302 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,902 | 57 | #1,452 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,970 | 37 | #1,819 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,697 | 43 | #1,615 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,378 | 36 | #1,734 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,075 | 25 | #2,180 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,387 | 8 | #4,640 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,033 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,582 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,229 |
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 Dakotah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,465 Americans recorded as Dakotah, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dakotah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dakotah, and how old are they?
5,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,465 Americans ever recorded as Dakotah. The median Dakotah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,991 people named Dakotah (1,651 women and girls, 2,340 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,977 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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 Dakotah born?
The states with the most babies named Dakotah are Texas, California and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 218 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 214 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 169 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 167 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 106 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 101 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 85 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Dakotah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dakotah is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1979 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Dakotah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Dakotah?
Dakotah is a less common spelling of Dakota: SSA has recorded 5,465 Dakotah and 134,576 Dakota since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 140,917 babies since 1880, Dakotah is the second most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 2,171 babies (2.9%), again the second 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 Dakotah
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 Dakotah and names like it
- Compare Dakotah and DakotaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDakotah peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dakotah since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Dakotah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dakotah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.