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Dakota
Pronounced /dəˈkəʊtə/
Rank in 2024
#273
Born in 2024
1,155
Peak year
2006 · #190
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:1,053 in 2024 (#328)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,155 girls were named Dakota, about 1 in every 1,397.
- It peaked in 2006 with 1,839 babies, ranked #190.
- It first shows up in the records in 1915.
- 40,410 girls have been named Dakota since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dakota per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 14 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 77 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 147 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,109 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19,236 babies, 0.66 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,827 babies, 0.73 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).
- A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /dəˈkəʊtə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dakota, CC BY-SA 4.0.