Dekota
Dekota was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,299 among boys’ names; 1,194 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Dekota and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dekota by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dekota?
#7,299 among boys’ names, 2025
Dekota rose from #12,513 in 2015 to #7,299 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 6.4 per million.
59 babies in 1998, the peak
Dekota peaked in 1998, when 59 babies were given it (48 boys, #1,991 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 11 | #7,299 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,358 | 13 | #6,540 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,607 | 10 | #7,850 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,199 | 7 | #10,050 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,113 | 19 | #4,968 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,733 | 15 | #5,768 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,841 | 15 | #5,881 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,813 | 13 | #6,425 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,493 | 12 | #6,779 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,722 | 12 | #6,814 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,573 | 5 | #12,513 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,335 | 9 | #8,285 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,285 | 12 | #6,708 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,509 | 13 | #6,398 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,428 | 10 | #7,626 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,684 | 13 | #6,431 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,711 | 21 | #4,618 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,843 | 13 | #6,484 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,146 | 25 | #4,035 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,654 | 21 | #4,387 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 19 | #4,505 | |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,414 | 24 | #3,757 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,579 | 29 | #3,207 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,006 | 27 | #3,278 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,394 | 35 | #2,694 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,330 | 44 | #2,225 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,914 | 40 | #2,269 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,134 | 48 | #1,991 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,306 | 43 | #2,067 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,986 | 44 | #1,991 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,156 | 51 | #1,735 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,987 | 34 | #2,311 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,213 | 28 | #2,589 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,692 | 30 | #2,416 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,555 | 22 | #2,921 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 10 | #5,073 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,756 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 14 | #3,558 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 13 | #3,573 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,362 | 13 | #3,483 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,560 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,478 | under 5 |
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 Dekota a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,194 Americans recorded as Dekota, 29% are girls and 71% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dekota: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dekota, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,194 Americans ever recorded as Dekota. The median Dekota alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,000 people named Dekota (300 women and girls, 700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 313 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 574 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dekota
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 Dekota and names like it
- Compare Dekota and DakotahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDekota peaked in 1998.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dekota since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Dekota.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dekota alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.