Dakoda

#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
Given to boys 78.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
1995 · 144 births
Debut · boys
13 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,356
since 1986

Dakoda over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201986peak #2,887, 2006peak #921, 1995girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114#2,10869
2024#4,89327#1,97079
2023#3,76340#1,83287
2022#5,17225#1,91781
2021#4,60729#2,37357
2020#5,16824#1,87279
2019#5,61222#2,73646
2018#6,79217#2,02971
2017#5,82121#2,31956
2016#4,42332#2,38754
2015#5,83322#2,18962
2014#5,45624#2,17562
2013#5,48624#2,06565
2012#4,70730#2,13263
2011#5,35825#2,43751
2010#4,18035#1,77883
2009#3,56145#1,70891
2008#3,71043#1,374124
2007#4,13137#1,327128
2006#2,88760#1,273131
2005#3,58741#1,225129
2004#4,60129#1,053153
2003#5,41922#1,40095
2002#5,44421#1,49884
2001#5,36421#1,42987
2000#4,64925#1,271102
1999#5,89617#1,019136
1998#4,79622#1,159108
1997#4,50823#1,013126
1996#5,28018#935139
1995#5,01919#921144
1994#6,31914#952134
1993#9,5598#1,000119
1992#6,65213#1,13594
1991#5,94915#1,44362
1990#1,90940
1989#2,78422
1988#2,96118
1987#3,73112
1986#3,44013
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five boys were named Dakoda! It came in at #3,440, and was given to 13 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1986–1988, when fewer than 19 boys a year got the name.

See more about Dakoda
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 138 spots since 2024 (#1,970#2,108)
  • 236 spots since 2020 (#1,872#2,108)
  • 81 spots since 2015 (#2,189#2,108)
  • Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1993 (#1,135#1,000)
  • Biggest drop: 78 spots in 1997 (#935#1,013)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 1995 at #921 (144 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1993–1996
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,974
  • Highest: 1 in 12,974 boys born in 2004 were named Dakoda (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #921 in 1995, was only 1 in 13,220 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 33.5% of all boys named Dakoda (1,124) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s65#2,784 (1989)#3,229
1990s1,102#921 (1995)#1,149
2000s1,124#1,053 (2004)#1,356
2010s613#1,778 (2010)#2,225
2020s452#1,832 (2023)#2,012

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Dakoda in 1986

boys
#3,440
13 births · 1 in 141,655 boys

Top boys' names in 1986

  1. #1Michael64,235
  2. #2Christopher56,693
  3. #3Matthew46,929
  4. #4Joshua37,542
  5. #5David37,150
  6. #6Daniel36,573
  7. #7James34,057
  8. #8Andrew33,858
  9. #9Robert31,350
  10. #10John30,209
  11. #3,440Dakoda13
More about 1986

boys

1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 141,655 of them was named Dakoda, which outranked 56.1% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dakoda
  1. #3,268Yasser14
  2. #3,268Yeng14
  3. #3,268Yu14
  4. #3,440Dakoda13
  5. #3,440Abrahim13
  6. #3,440Adrienne13
  7. #3,440Ahren13
  8. #3,653Abrahan12
  9. #3,653Adeel12
  10. #3,653Ahron12

Tied with 212 names at #3,440; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1985
Risers
  1. 1,279Spenser#2,226#947
  2. 920Jayce#1,614#694
  3. 714Addison#1,228#514
  4. 649Payton#1,614#965
  5. 573Cordell#1,181#608
Fallers
  1. 409Ulises#877#1,286
  2. 365Eliot#934#1,299
  3. 322Jordy#998#1,320
  4. 313Trace#956#1,269
  5. 292Kennith#963#1,255

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1986