Dekota
Dekota is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199551 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1986
- 1,183people given the name
The story in the numbers
834 boys have been named Dekota in the United States since 1986, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 51 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 42%.
Dekota is used for both sexes: 30% of its bearers are girls (349), most of them born around 2006.
By decade
In 1995, its biggest year
Dekota was outside the top 1,000 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 Dekota
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tyreekpeak 1998
- Dajonpeak 1999
- Kishanpeak 1997
- Deondrepeak 1998
- Dakotapeak 1995
- Tylarpeak 1997
- Tyquanpeak 1997
- Austinpeak 1995
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.