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Dakoda

boys’ name · 79%girls’ name · 21%Steady · modern nameCompare

Dakoda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 77 births. Its best rank was 922nd, in 1995.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
770.00% of boys
Peak year
2004153 births
Best rank
#922in 1995
Since 1986
4,174people given the name
Babies named Dakoda, by year of birthboysgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,285 boys have been named Dakoda in the United States since 1986, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 153 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Dakoda is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are girls (889), most of them born around 2006.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Dakoda
1980s65
1990s1,102
2000s1,124
2010s613
2020s381

In 2004, its biggest year

Dakoda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.

Names that rose and fell with Dakoda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.