Dacota
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dacota is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2Kas Dakota(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 23Kas Dakota
- CACanada≈1 in 39Kas Dakota
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dacota itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
102,684 named Dakota, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States, as Dakota
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dakota in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dacota counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 102,684as Dakota | 1 in 3.2K | 73K | Dakota | 450 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 63 | Dakota | 127 |
| CA Canada | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 5 | Dakota | 182 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 9 | Dakota | 100 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Dakota | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 13 | Dakota | 44 |
102,684 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dacota is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Dakota (either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 438 | #17,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 183 | #17,639 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 20 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Dacota a male or female name?
- Dacota is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dacota have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 103 thousand people named Dakota, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dacota most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Dacota itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people named Dakota.
- How common is the name Dacota?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102,684 people named Dakota in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dacotaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dacota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.