Sakai
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to boys 86.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 131 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 554since 1998
Sakai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,393 | 131 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | — | #2,660 | 49 | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #2,438 | 57 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,639 | 21 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,617 | 10 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,840 | 8 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #6,603 | 12 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #8,339 | 7 | |
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| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sakai! It came in at #9,631, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Sakai
- 977 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #1,393)
- 2,748 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #1,393)
- 10,693 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #1,393)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2025 at #1,393 (131 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,039 boys born in 2025 were named Sakai (0.01%)
- 62.3% of all boys named Sakai (345) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 10 | #9,631 (1998) | #9,772 |
| 2000s | 90 | #5,278 (2005) | #7,571 |
| 2010s | 109 | #4,639 (2019) | #8,000 |
| 2020s | 345 | #1,393 (2025) | #2,853 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sakai in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 270,032 of them was named Sakai, which outranked 24.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,161Zymira7
- #12,161Zyn7
- #12,161Zyomi7
- #13,477Sakai6
- #13,477Aada6
- #13,477Aadiya6
- #13,477Aalaysia6
- #15,293Aabha5
- #15,293Aaina5
- #15,293Aaisha5
Tied with 1,815 names at #13,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 29,201 of them was named Sakai, which outranked 83.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,345Uzziah60
- #2,345Yulian60
- #2,345Zian60
- #2,370Sakai59
- #2,370Aayansh59
- #2,370Adair59
- #2,370Alastair59
- #2,393Arya58
- #2,393Braeden58
- #2,393Braiden58
Tied with 22 names at #2,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.