Recorded 1979–2025 · United States
Dakotah was most popular in 1994, when 290 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,311 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,847, with 62 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 5,465 people named Dakotah.
Dakotah first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1979, which makes it about 46 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 45 of the 47 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 5,465 American births named Dakotah between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 5,363 are estimated to be alive today.
62 American babies were named Dakotah in 2025, ranking #4,847 that year.
Dakotah is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 71 births a year, against 104 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -32% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Dakotah is a unisex name — 42.3% of the 5,465 Americans given it were girls and 57.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2010 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 65% girls and 35% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 5,363 Americans named Dakotah are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 25 years old, and half are between 16 and 31.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org