Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Dakota
/dah · KOH · tah/
Meaning
“Friend or ally”
From the Lakota Sioux word meaning friend or ally, referring to the Dakota people of the Great Plains. Carries a strong sense of American geography and Indigenous heritage.
Nicknames
dak
Vibe
strongwarm
How it ages.
Peaked in the US in the 1990s-2000s; starting to feel like a product of that era.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, now declining.