"allies"
The name Nakota is commonly a unisex name from the "" origin that means "allies".
Nakota is the term used for the Yankton and Yanktonai divisions of the Sioux, alongside Dakota and Lakota, and it belongs to the Siouan language grouping those peoples share. Reference works on the Sioux commonly gloss the three terms as "allies" or "friends". The given name is taken from this term and is recent in the United States, first appearing in birth records there in 1991.
The pronunciation of Nakota is nuh-KOH-tuh.
