# Dakotah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dakotah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,465 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,151 / 2,314 (42% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 58 | 2,955 |
| 2012 | 65 | 2,715 |
| 2013 | 63 | 2,734 |
| 2014 | 61 | 2,818 |
| 2015 | 73 | 2,481 |
| 2016 | 58 | 2,911 |
| 2017 | 54 | 3,025 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,971 |
| 2019 | 50 | 3,183 |
| 2020 | 51 | 3,101 |
| 2021 | 65 | 2,649 |
| 2022 | 60 | 2,829 |
| 2023 | 35 | 4,130 |
| 2024 | 56 | 2,942 |
| 2025 | 35 | 4,090 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 2,809 |
| 2012 | 42 | 2,828 |
| 2013 | 38 | 2,965 |
| 2014 | 42 | 2,818 |
| 2015 | 38 | 3,039 |
| 2016 | 44 | 2,735 |
| 2017 | 45 | 2,722 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,118 |
| 2019 | 28 | 3,815 |
| 2020 | 23 | 4,303 |
| 2021 | 23 | 4,391 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,063 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,712 |
| 2024 | 21 | 4,733 |
| 2025 | 27 | 3,969 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.