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I don't know if this is just me, but when people name their child Dakotah or Cheyenne or any other name like that I tend to find it a bit rude. I mean, in my opinion it is just like mocking the tribe. I am not Native American though, so I wouldn't know how they actually feel about it. I do know many Native Americans though, and they have always told me that someone naming their child with one of those monikers just seems a little ignorant about how important tribe names are and how proud the tribes are of those names. Just using the name frivolously is sort of a little annoying. That is what most of them have told me anyway.

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Anyway, to answer your question now that I have ranted a bit: I think that since the original name Dakota and Dakotah are not assigned genders it wouldn't matter what gender you use the name on. You can always search for the name and see what percent of each gender it has been on over the years.