Dacoda
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dacoda has been given to 661 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.
Babies named Dacoda, 2020
1 in 668,000
Dacoda over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Dacoda over time
In 2020, Dacoda went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Dacoda?
Dacoda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dacoda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dacoda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dacodas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dacoda was born before 1999 — so the typical Dacoda is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 544
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (273).
Is Dacoda rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (45)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dacoda
Dacoda is not the most common spelling — Dakota is, with 93.3% against Dacoda's 0.55%.
Where Dacoda is used
Across 1910–2025, Dacoda was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 766,827 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dacoda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dacoda around the world
Where Dacoda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dacoda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dacoda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dacoda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.