# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/81 "2023-08-31T20:44:06Z")
Dakota is the indigenous, native American, name for “no fucking trees”. ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/82 "2023-08-31T21:53:06Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > My cousin has a 16yo granddaughter named Dakota. If your cousin is your first cousin, then you have a first cousin twice removed named Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/83 "2023-08-31T22:03:28Z")
> [@pipperroo](#): > > Elementary school there were sisters names Dakota and Ocean. Many jokes about location of birth or conception. Did they have a sibling named Ford? ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/84 "2023-08-31T22:39:57Z")
Not to my knowledge. But they could have. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/85 "2023-09-01T01:35:33Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > If your cousin is your first cousin, then you have a first cousin twice removed named Dakota. Awesome! Thx. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/86 "2023-09-01T17:47:04Z")
Just for another data point, the ultramarathoner Dakota Jones just finished third at the CCC 100km race. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/87 "2023-09-01T18:52:26Z")
I know of two Dakotas, both men. One was a high school friend of my wife’s, born in the mid-1970s. The other is **[the son of former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer](https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/photos-former-louisiana-governor-buddy-roemer-has-died-a-look-back-through-his-life/collection_8c94b7da-b720-11eb-8a03-fbb1a07a2d25.html#1)** (1988-92) – see second photo at link. Dakota Roemer was born in the early 1980s IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/88 "2023-09-01T19:04:33Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > She hiked up her pants > and did a rain dance > but if it worked, nobody gnu. What’s all this, then!? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/89 "2023-09-01T19:06:23Z")
It’s a jointly authored limerick. 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:** ![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:** [September 1, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/90 "2023-09-01T20:44:41Z")
I understand @garygnu 😊 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/91 "2023-09-01T23:45:28Z")
But he’s gary, not nobody! ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/92 "2023-09-02T00:29:52Z")
No one has mentioned the almost all encompassing name _North_ And her last name _West_ So so special. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/93 "2023-09-04T02:28:44Z")
and St L Cards have pitcher named Dakota Hudson ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/94 "2023-09-04T06:40:24Z")
Interesting. I’ve known a few Dakotas, all male. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/95 "2023-09-04T15:44:45Z")
What about _Northern Exposure_ actor Rob Morrow’s daughter, Tu? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/96 "2023-09-05T15:30:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My daughters boyfriend is a Dakoda. Spelled like that. My niece’s boyfriend spells his name the same way ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/97 "2023-09-06T14:56:31Z")
now, a Dakoda Toyoda - wouldnt that be something? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/98 "2023-09-06T15:55:24Z")
Dakota sounds like a character from Road House. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/99 "2023-09-06T15:59:18Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Dakota is the indigenous, native American, name for “no fucking trees”. So, the polar opposite of a dendrophile, then? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362/100 "2023-09-06T22:34:36Z")
Oh, yeah. I do know a Dakota. He’s my first cousin once removed. But he goes by Cody, so I forgot his full name until just now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-us-named-dakota/989362.md?page=4)