Dakota-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- da-KOH-ta-RAY
- Origin
- Native American
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Dakota-Rae is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “friends, allies + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Dakota-Rae mean?
Native American: Dakota + Rae
“friends, allies + ewe”
Joins Dakota (Native American, “friends, allies”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Dakota and Rae.
Is Dakota-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Dakota-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dakota-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 200% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Dakota-Rae, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Dakota-Rae of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Dakota-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
Names like Dakota-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dakota, Remi, Maeve, Minha, Yumna, Rumi, Saoirse, Daphne, Suki, Kiki, Ottilie, Maeva
More Native American names
Tallulah, Nayeli, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Dakoda, Lakota, Wynonna
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dakota-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dakota-rae, updated 20 October 2026.