Meaning not yet researched.
Dakoda: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #922 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #922 in 1995; #2,114 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Dakoda in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,114 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #922.
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Dakoda: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 boys in 2025. Peak: #922 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 153 (2004).
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Dakoda, making it the 2,114th most common boys’ name of the year, down 139 places from #1,975 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 79 boys named Dakoda in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #922, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 153, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,195 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Dakoda, making it the 7,578th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,651 places from #4,927 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 27 girls named Dakoda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,892, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #5,875 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dakoda in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 13 babies. In all, 4,260 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,468 babies named Dakoda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 679 US boys were named Dakoda; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dakoda ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,311 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dacoda and Dakodah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dacoda (661), Dakodah (103).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dakoda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,311 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,893 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,130 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,547 | #2,635 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,578 | 69 | #2,114 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,927 | 79 | #1,975 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,782 | 87 | #1,837 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,202 | 81 | #1,922 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,645 | 57 | #2,382 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,197 | 79 | #1,878 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,653 | 46 | #2,740 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,871 | 71 | #2,034 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,878 | 56 | #2,325 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,447 | 54 | #2,391 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,875 | 62 | #2,195 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,510 | 62 | #2,180 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,529 | 65 | #2,074 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,745 | 63 | #2,140 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,408 | 51 | #2,444 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,218 | 83 | #1,783 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,576 | 91 | #1,709 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,725 | 124 | #1,374 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,149 | 128 | #1,327 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,892 | 131 | #1,275 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,601 | 129 | #1,225 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,626 | 153 | #1,053 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,464 | 95 | #1,401 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,499 | 84 | #1,500 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,414 | 87 | #1,433 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,683 | 102 | #1,273 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,979 | 136 | #1,020 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,828 | 108 | #1,163 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,546 | 126 | #1,013 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,327 | 139 | #935 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,064 | 144 | #922 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,395 | 134 | #952 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,774 | 119 | #1,001 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,731 | 94 | #1,137 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,013 | 62 | #1,445 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,910 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,806 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #2,989 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,772 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,480 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).