girls:
188 births since 1990
#5528 (3rd percentile)
boys:
491 births since 1988
#4095 (11th percentile)
overall:
679 births since 1988
#7060 (9th percentile)
The name Dacota is the #7,060 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 679 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 8.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,095 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 491 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,528 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 188 births since 1990.
Dacota first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Dacota is available in 30 out of the 35 years between 1988 and 2022 (26 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dacota has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Dacota were boys.
For boys, Dacota reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #757) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Dacota reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #898) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dacota".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dacota is pronounced as duh-KOH-tuh, which has 3 syllables.
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