Dakota
Dakota is ranked 328th among boys in 2024 (1,053 births). Its best rank was 56th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- #328same as 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0530.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 19956,575 births
- Best rank
- #56in 1995
- Since 1966
- 132,430people given the name
The story in the numbers
92,020 boys have been named Dakota in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 6,575 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 358 → 328).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 51%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.
Dakota is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are girls (40,410), most of them born around 2006.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1995, its biggest year
Dakota was the 56th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1995 were Michael, Matthew, Christopher, Jacob and Joshua. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Dakota
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kishanpeak 1997
- Savonpeak 1993
- Tylarpeak 1997
- Alecpeak 1995
- Daquanpeak 1994
- Daultonpeak 1994
- Daltonpeak 1998
- Dekotapeak 1995
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.