Meaning not yet researched.
Dakotah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,736 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,736 in 1995; #4,090 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Dakotah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,090 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,736.
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Dakotah: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,736 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 88 (2010).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Dakotah, making it the 4,090th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,148 places from #2,942 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 56 girls named Dakotah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,736, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 88, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,481 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Dakotah, making it the 3,969th most common boys’ name of the year, up 764 places from #4,733 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 21 boys named Dakotah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #728, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 207. For comparison, it was #3,039 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dakotah in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 5,465 US babies have been given the name, 42% of them girls and 58% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,196 babies named Dakotah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 519 US girls were named Dakotah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dakota (134,576 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in American English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Dakotah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,090 | 27 | #3,969 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,942 | 21 | #4,733 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,130 | 16 | #5,712 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,829 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,649 | 23 | #4,391 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,101 | 23 | #4,303 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,183 | 28 | #3,815 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,971 | 37 | #3,118 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,025 | 45 | #2,722 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,911 | 44 | #2,735 |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,481 | 38 | #3,039 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,818 | 42 | #2,818 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,734 | 38 | #2,965 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,715 | 42 | #2,828 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,955 | 42 | #2,809 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,204 | 45 | #2,691 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,975 | 64 | #2,124 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,639 | 66 | #2,094 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,314 | 71 | #1,982 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,465 | 100 | #1,512 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,640 | 94 | #1,515 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,533 | 100 | #1,417 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,416 | 81 | #1,566 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,350 | 82 | #1,515 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,776 | 93 | #1,372 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,746 | 123 | #1,131 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,919 | 147 | #976 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,850 | 173 | #843 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,051 | 153 | #902 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,091 | 171 | #836 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,736 | 204 | #750 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,758 | 207 | #728 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,180 | 159 | #834 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,085 | 143 | #884 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,852 | 92 | #1,148 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,815 | 72 | #1,307 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,908 | 57 | #1,457 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,975 | 37 | #1,824 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,701 | 43 | #1,617 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,381 | 36 | #1,736 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,078 | 25 | #2,181 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,392 | 8 | #4,643 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,036 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,584 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,231 |
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).