Takota
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- tuh-KOH-tuh
- Origin
- Native American
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Takota is a boys' name of Native American origin, meaning “friends, allies”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Takota mean?
Native American: variant of Dakota
“friends, allies”
A variant of Dakota, the name of a Sioux people, usually said to mean friends or allies.
Is Takota a girl's or a boy's name?
Takota is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Takota in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Takota, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 29 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Takota in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Takota in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,898 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,219 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,572 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,132 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,445 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,296 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,293 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,586 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,014 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,676 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,180 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
Names like Takota
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dakota Tru Kota Yug Mikko Yuri Loki Ryu Yitzchok Minh Kairo Takai
More Native American names
Tallulah Nayeli Winona Kenai Cree Xochitl Xitlali Citlali Alaska Talulah Sequoia Denali Tennessee Dakoda Lakota Wynonna
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Takota: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/takota, updated 20 October 2026.