Dekota — #6592 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dekota

The Social Security Administration has registered 834 babies named Dekota between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dekota currently holds the #6592 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Dekota is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 349 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dekota performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 350 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dekota shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Dekota in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dekota 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 834 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.