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How popular is the name Dakota?
Births per year, rank history and how many Dakotas are alive today.
Dakota (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 490th in 2025 with 81 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2024, when 108 babies were given the name, the 400th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2016, with 106 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Dakota you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Dakotas born in England and Wales are between 6 and 17, and there are at least 1,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Dakota - on average, only one in every 175 such rooms contains a Dakota.
How many babies are named Dakota each year?
Where does Dakota rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Dakota most popular?
Dakota peaked in 2024, when 108 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Dakota?
At least 1,800 people named Dakota born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Dakota?
Most living Dakotas are between 6 and 17; the most common age is about 9.
Is Dakota becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.