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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dakota

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#319

up +7 places

2025 births

1,074

up +14 births

All-time births

93,118

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1995
6,575 births
Best rank
#56
in 1995
First recorded
1966
#4,060 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2001
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
57 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19956,575#56Peak
  2. 19966,067#58
  3. 19975,664#66
  4. 19945,535#69
  5. 19985,401#72

Rank over time

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

Best rank #56 in 1995 · peak births 6,575 in 1995

Boys and girls

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

● 69% boys■ 31% girls

93,118 boys · 41,458 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 Dakota has ranked, decade by decade

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