Dkota — unisex name
12 babies named Dkota in U.S. Social Security records since 2020, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Dkota was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Dkota in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dkota
The Social Security Administration has registered 12 babies named Dkota between 2020 and 2022, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dkota currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Dkota is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2003.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dkota performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dkota 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 12 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.
Dkota at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dkota popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2020
- Peak year (2020)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 3 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
12 total births across 3 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 6 births in a single year.
Dkota popularity over time — boys
10 total births recorded since 2003 (Dkota as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Dkota accounts for 45% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dkota by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 12 births that decade — 100% of Dkota's all-time total
Dkota decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Dkota's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2020–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.