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How popular is “Dakotah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dakotah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dakotah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dakotah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dakotah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dakotah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dakotah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dakotah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 14 0.000004013 6 8 -14%
1985 34 0.000009526 9 25 -47%
1986 54 0.000015181 18 36 -33%
1987 60 0.000016641 17 43 -43%
1988 50 0.000013532 13 37 -48%
1989 75 0.000019509 18 57 -52%
1990 113 0.00002859 41 72 -27%
1991 133 0.000034144 41 92 -38%
1992 208 0.000054149 65 143 -38%
1993 220 0.000058351 61 159 -45%
1994 290 0.000078006 83 207 -43%
1995 288 0.000078642 84 204 -42%
1996 237 0.000064981 66 171 -44%
1997 222 0.000061229 69 153 -38%
1998 256 0.000069599 83 173 -35%
1999 229 0.000061995 82 147 -28%
2000 176 0.000046562 53 123 -40%
2001 146 0.000039002 53 93 -27%
2002 123 0.000032903 41 82 -33%
2003 149 0.000039187 68 81 -9%
2004 166 0.000043445 66 100 -20%
2005 158 0.000041094 64 94 -19%
2006 175 0.000044234 75 100 -14%
2007 154 0.000038522 83 71 8%
2008 136 0.0000346 70 66 3%
2009 122 0.000031936 58 64 -5%
2010 133 0.000035987 88 45 32%
2011 100 0.000027339 58 42 16%
2012 107 0.000029256 65 42 21%
2013 100 0.00002743 62 38 24%
2014 103 0.00002779 61 42 18%
2015 111 0.000029993 73 38 32%
2016 102 0.000027803 58 44 14%
2017 99 0.000027683 54 45 9%
2018 91 0.000025882 55 36 21%
2019 78 0.000022472 50 28 28%
2020 74 0.000022152 51 23 38%
2021 88 0.000025974 65 23 48%
2022 79 0.000023351 60 19 52%
2023 51 0.000015402 35 16 37%
2024 77 0.000023134 56 21 45%

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