Dekota
#7,299 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dekota has been given to 1,194 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #7,299 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 51 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Dekota, 2025
1 in 301,000
Dekota 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Dekota over time
In 2025, Dekota 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 Dekota?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,299
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dekota sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dekota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dekotas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dekota was born before 2000 — so the typical Dekota is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 845
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (350).
Is Dekota 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
- −759
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,531
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,214
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 21.6%
- Peak was 1995 (51)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dekota
Dekota is not the most common spelling — Dakota is, with 83.4% against Dekota's 0.76%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Dekota is used
Across 1910–2025, Dekota was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 408,560 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 in —
- 4Washington1 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. Dekota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dekota around the world
Where Dekota 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.
- Canada1994–1995#1,910in 1995
- South Australia2002–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dekota by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dekota
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dekota
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.