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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dacota

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

491

peak year 1997

More common than

82%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1997
40 births
Best rank
#2,174
in 1997
First recorded
1988
#7,508 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1999
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
26 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199740#2,174Peak
  2. 199840#2,240
  3. 200234#2,768
  4. 200133#2,818
  5. 199532#2,406

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,174 in 1997 · peak births 40 in 1997

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 72% boys■ 28% girls

491 boys · 188 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Dacota has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.