Entry № 2249 · Dakota Sioux origin

Dakota Dakota — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dah-KOH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dakota Sioux
Meaning
"Friend / ally (Dakota Johnson; Dakota Fanning)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Dakota)

A name that means "friend / ally (dakota johnson; dakota fanning)".

Hannah "Dakota" Fanning's sister Elle Fanning is also an actress.

Friend / ally.

The name in its native script.

Dakota
Transliteration
Dakota
Pronunciation
/ dəˈkoʊ.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dakota stands.

Dakota does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dakotas before her.

Real people
Dakota Johnson
American actress.
born 1989
Dakota Fanning
American actress.
born 1994
In fiction
Dakota
Various American TV/film.

Names connected to Dakota.

The number behind Dakota.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dakota reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.