Meaning not yet researched.
Dekota: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,740 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,740 in 1995; #7,303 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dekota in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,303 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,740.
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Dekota: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,740 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 51 (1995).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Dekota, making it the 7,303rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 758 places from #6,545 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 boys named Dekota in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,740, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #12,519 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dekota in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #6,399, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 19, in 2006. For comparison, it was #8,577 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dekota in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 1,194 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 426 babies named Dekota.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US boys were named Dekota; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Decota, Dekotah and Dekita are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Decota (41), Dekotah (10), Dekita (5).
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 Dekota 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,303 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,363 | 13 | #6,545 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,612 | 10 | #7,855 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,204 | 7 | #10,056 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,118 | 19 | #4,972 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,738 | 15 | #5,772 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,845 | 15 | #5,886 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,818 | 13 | #6,429 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,498 | 12 | #6,783 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,725 | 12 | #6,819 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,577 | 5 | #12,519 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,340 | 9 | #8,291 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,290 | 12 | #6,713 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,516 | 13 | #6,404 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,434 | 10 | #7,633 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,693 | 13 | #6,437 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,716 | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,848 | 13 | #6,489 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,150 | 25 | #4,037 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,656 | 21 | #4,391 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,510 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,419 | 24 | #3,761 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,585 | 29 | #3,212 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,012 | 27 | #3,282 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,399 | 35 | #2,699 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,338 | 44 | #2,229 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,920 | 40 | #2,272 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,140 | 48 | #1,994 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,311 | 43 | #2,070 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,991 | 44 | #1,995 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,161 | 51 | #1,740 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,993 | 34 | #2,316 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,219 | 28 | #2,595 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,699 | 30 | #2,421 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,562 | 22 | #2,927 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,080 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,763 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,563 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,578 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,367 | 13 | #3,486 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,563 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,480 | — | — |
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).