How rare is the name Dakotah?

3,991 people in the United States have the first name Dakotah, about 1 in 75,678. It ranks #4,606 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DAKOTAH

#4,606

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,991
About
1 in 75,678
This common or more
84.3%
Who bears it

Of the 3,991 people named Dakotah, 71.9% reported their origin as White, 9% as two or more races and 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 58.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dakotah peaked in 1994, when 290 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
290
In 2025*
62 ▼79%
Recorded as
used for both

At least 5,465 babies have been given the name since 1979. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dakotah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,602. The largest share of babies named Dakotah, 46.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#24,5405
1980s#4,820302
1990s#1,6022,196
2000s#2,4991,505
2010s#3,4801,026
2020s#4,411431
Generation X 1965–800.2%
Millennials 1981–9632.6%
Generation Z 1997–1246.7%
2013 and later20.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dakotah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dakotah has been most common in Minnesota (4.9×), Oklahoma (2.3×), and Washington (2.1×), and least common in North Carolina (0.79×).

1,831 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dakotah

1 other first name also has 3,991 people.

#4,606 Bing · 3,991

Either side of Dakotah

#4,605 Demond · 3,992#4,606 Bing · 3,991#4,608 Olivier · 3,990#4,609 Emmet · 3,989

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dakotah, most common first.

#543 Dakota · 102,684#5,636 Dakoda · 3,002#17,639 Dacota · 621#40,999 Dacotah · 180#47,857 Dakotta · 135

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