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How popular is “Dekota” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dekota” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dekota” 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 “Dekota” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dekota” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dekota” 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
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 5 13 -44%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 30 0.000007702 8 22 -47%
1992 38 0.000009893 8 30 -58%
1993 38 0.000010079 10 28 -47%
1994 39 0.00001049 5 34 -74%
1995 57 0.000015565 6 51 -79%
1996 53 0.000014532 9 44 -66%
1997 48 0.000013239 5 43 -79%
1998 59 0.00001604 11 48 -63%
1999 54 0.000014619 14 40 -48%
2000 54 0.000014286 10 44 -63%
2001 52 0.000013891 17 35 -35%
2002 38 0.000010165 11 27 -42%
2003 37 0.000009731 8 29 -57%
2004 35 0.00000916 11 24 -37%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
2006 40 0.000010111 19 21 -5%
2007 38 0.000009506 13 25 -32%
2008 22 0.000005597 9 13 -18%
2009 30 0.000007853 9 21 -40%
2010 18 0.00000487 5 13 -44%
2011 19 0.000005194 9 10 -5%
2012 21 0.000005742 8 13 -24%
2013 20 0.000005486 8 12 -20%
2014 19 0.000005126 10 9 5%
2015 18 0.000004864 13 5 44%
2016 30 0.000008177 18 12 20%
2017 17 0.000004754 5 12 -41%
2018 20 0.000005688 7 13 -30%
2019 29 0.000008355 14 15 -3%
2020 25 0.000007484 10 15 -20%
2021 30 0.000008855 11 19 -27%
2022 18 0.000005321 11 7 22%
2023 22 0.000006644 12 10 9%
2024 21 0.000006309 8 13 -24%

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