Dekota
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Dekota by the numbers
Dekota was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 51 babies in 1995, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Dekota
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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