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Dakota
Pronounced /dəˈkəʊtə/
Rank in 2024
#328
Born in 2024
1,053
Peak year
1995 · #56
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,155 in 2024 (#273)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,053 boys were named Dakota, about 1 in every 1,629.
- It peaked in 1995 with 6,575 babies, ranked #56.
- It first shows up in the records in 1966.
- 92,020 boys 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.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- 0Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 230 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 32,911 babies, 1.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 47,471 babies, 1.51 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 11,408 babies, 0.53 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.