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
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,356since 1986
Dakoda over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #1,970 | 79 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #2,373 | 57 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #2,387 | 54 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 | #2,065 | 65 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #1,778 | 83 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 | #1,708 | 91 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | #1,374 | 124 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 | #1,327 | 128 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 | #1,273 | 131 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | #1,225 | 129 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #1,053 | 153 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 | #1,400 | 95 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #1,498 | 84 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #1,271 | 102 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #1,019 | 136 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #1,159 | 108 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #1,013 | 126 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #935 | 139 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #921 | 144 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #952 | 134 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,000 | 119 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,135 | 94 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,443 | 62 |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,961 | 18 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 1995 at #921 (144 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1993–1996
- 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
- 33.5% of all boys named Dakoda (1,124) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 65 | #2,784 (1989) | #3,229 |
| 1990s | 1,102 | #921 (1995) | #1,149 |
| 2000s | 1,124 | #1,053 (2004) | #1,356 |
| 2010s | 613 | #1,778 (2010) | #2,225 |
| 2020s | 452 | #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 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 127,554 of them was named Dakoda, which outranked 59.9% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,984Zoee15
- #5,984Zola15
- #5,984Zora15
- #6,319Dakoda14
- #6,319Abegail14
- #6,319Adaline14
- #6,319Adelia14
- #6,672Aalayah13
- #6,672Aarti13
- #6,672Abbigayle13
Tied with 352 names at #6,319; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 14,418 of them was named Dakoda, which outranked 90.7% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).