Name meaning & stats
Dakota
Dakota means “friend, ally”. 134,562 US babies since 1940, peak 1995.
What it means
“friend, ally”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1995
134,562 US babies were named Dakota between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Dakota (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Dakota is the main spelling
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1995)