# Anyone in US named Dakota? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362 "2023-08-30T20:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/61 "2023-08-31T01:50:22Z")
I count about 40 on the Social Security Death index. No idea how many non-deceased Arkansases there are. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/62 "2023-08-31T01:51:45Z")
Are they pluralized like that, for real? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/63 "2023-08-31T01:56:03Z")
That’s how I pluralized it. I suppose it could just be Arkansas and not change, though you’d pronounce the final ‘s.’ I think “Arkansases” follows the normal pluralization rules better (and I do find historical texts using that spelling in the plural, referencing a gun-boat named _Arkansas_ and a wish for there to be more _Arkansases_.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/64 "2023-08-31T02:16:18Z")
Nice! Always a question around these parts. I’ll let that be known the next time it comes up. \*If \* you don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/65 "2023-08-31T03:17:26Z")
Utah Phillips. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/66 "2023-08-31T03:32:25Z")
His given name was Bruce Duncan Phillips. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/67 "2023-08-31T03:34:13Z")
The question was names, not legal names. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/68 "2023-08-31T03:39:46Z")
Ok. Back to Dakota. I think alot of them got lost in the nickname _Cody_ ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/69 "2023-08-31T03:50:07Z")
I checked the Social Security Death Index and there’s no one named Connecticut or Massachusetts. Every other state is represented (if you leave off “New” and cardinal points) and count Rhode and Island separately. Pennsylvania only shows one, though, and Hawaii only has five. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/70 "2023-08-31T04:34:11Z")
A little off topic, but interesting: Back in the 1970’s I knew a young woman named Sue. Then one day I learned that she spelled it Sioux. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/71 "2023-08-31T12:52:21Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I knew a young woman named Sue. > Then one day I learned that she spelled it Sioux. She hiked up her pants and did a rain dance but if it worked, nobody gnu. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/72 "2023-08-31T12:59:16Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Rayne Dakota (Dak) Prescott (born 1993), American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys Ah! That’s where the “Dak” Prescott comes from! I always wondered! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/73 "2023-08-31T13:04:02Z")
I think I have some distant cousins on my mother’s side who shortened it to “Dick.” Different generation. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/74 "2023-08-31T13:05:04Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > [@chappachula](#): > > > > I knew a young woman named Sue. > > Then one day I learned that she spelled it Sioux. > > She hiked up her pants > and did a rain dance > but if it worked, nobody gnu. Good old Siouxsie! She plays in Malaga tonight, then Lisbon on Saturday, then it’s back to London: > **[Siouxsie - Live](https://www.musicglue.com/siouxsie/live)** > > Siouxsie. Live event listings and tickets ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/75 "2023-08-31T13:10:00Z")
My younger brother was given the middle name “Daekota” by his birth mother who was (charitably) not the sharpest tool in the shed. She said that she changed the spelling so that he wouldn’t have the “duh” sound in his name. Seriously. My parents changed the name when they adopted him, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/76 "2023-08-31T15:34:25Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I checked the Social Security Death Index and there’s no one named Connecticut or Massachusetts. Maybe that means that people who are named Connecticut or Massachusetts don’t die. ---
**Author:** ![pipperroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@pipperroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipperroo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/77 "2023-08-31T16:39:20Z")
Elementary school there were sisters names Dakota and Ocean. Many jokes about location of birth or conception. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/78 "2023-08-31T16:49:56Z")
That reminds me of dropping off my son at a hotel kid’s activity so my husband and I could go do some adult sightseeing. Another couple was dropping of a brother and sister, and referred to the daughter as “Dallas.” Standing in taxi line afterward, I cracked to my husband, “I wonder what Dallas’s brother’s name is … Houston?” I had not noticed that the parents of Dallas & bro were standing right in front of us in line. Oops.The mother turned around and glared at me. I felt kinda bad, but if you have two kids and one is named Dallas, I think you kind of have to anticipate that joke. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/79 "2023-08-31T18:28:50Z")
My cousin has a 16yo granddaughter named Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/80 "2023-08-31T20:26:17Z")
Honest to God … One of my kids had a teacher named Mrs. Rhodes. I met her husband. I’m thinking, don’t laugh when she introduces him as _Dusty_ , nope. It was _Rocky_. I managed to refrain from laughing til I met her kids. _Stoney_ and _Canyon_. I kid you not. I think I would’ve went Vanilla and Pistachio, myself [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362.md?page=5)