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

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Peak · boys
2025 · 131 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
554
since 1998

Sakai over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,393131
2024#13,4776#2,37059
2023#2,66049
2022#9,05611#2,43857
2021#13,4646#4,11825
2020#4,14124
2019#4,63921
2018#7,61710
2017#8,8408
2016#14,3316#10,7446
2015#12,0865
2014#10,7176
2013#6,60312
2012#16,8695#7,55910
2011#12,1538#5,94514
2010#11,2469#5,25117
2009#9,37912#6,43613
2008#15,4056#7,18711
2007#13,9247#10,9216
2006#5,78114
2005#10,9219#5,27815
2004#6,97610
2003#15,7845#7,8318
2002#9,3926
2001#8,3397
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First appearance
1998

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
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1998
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,393 (131 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,039
  • Highest: 1 in 13,039 boys born in 2025 were named Sakai (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 62.3% of all boys named Sakai (345) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
  • Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s10#9,631 (1998)#9,772
2000s90#5,278 (2005)#7,571
2010s109#4,639 (2019)#8,000
2020s345#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

girls
#13,477
6 births · 1 in 270,032 girls
boys
#2,370
59 births · 1 in 29,201 boys

Top girls' names in 2024

  1. #1Olivia14,772
  2. #2Emma13,524
  3. #3Amelia12,786
  4. #4Charlotte12,597
  5. #5Mia12,149
  6. #6Sophia12,126
  7. #7Isabella10,810
  8. #8Evelyn9,146
  9. #9Ava8,700
  10. #10Sofia8,113
  11. #13,477Sakai6

Top boys' names in 2024

  1. #1Liam22,252
  2. #2Noah20,409
  3. #3Oliver15,396
  4. #4Theodore12,069
  5. #5James11,856
  6. #6Henry11,596
  7. #7Mateo11,349
  8. #8Elijah11,238
  9. #9Lucas10,743
  10. #10William10,647
  11. #2,370Sakai59
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).

Ranked beside Sakai
  1. #12,161Zymira7
  2. #12,161Zyn7
  3. #12,161Zyomi7
  4. #13,477Sakai6
  5. #13,477Aada6
  6. #13,477Aadiya6
  7. #13,477Aalaysia6
  8. #15,293Aabha5
  9. #15,293Aaina5
  10. #15,293Aaisha5

Tied with 1,815 names at #13,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 756Ailany#857#101
  2. 439Aylani#1,001#562
  3. 426Marjorie#1,248#822
  4. 414Scottie#616#202
  5. 365Elodie#737#372
Fallers
  1. 605Emryn#887#1,492
  2. 307Zhuri#862#1,169
  3. 301Layne#974#1,275
  4. 273Alitzel#876#1,149
  5. 267Aleyna#964#1,231

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).

Ranked beside Sakai
  1. #2,345Uzziah60
  2. #2,345Yulian60
  3. #2,345Zian60
  4. #2,370Sakai59
  5. #2,370Aayansh59
  6. #2,370Adair59
  7. #2,370Alastair59
  8. #2,393Arya58
  9. #2,393Braeden58
  10. #2,393Braiden58

Tied with 22 names at #2,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 9,833Truce#10,821#988
  2. 1,201Colsen#1,832#631
  3. 616Bryer#1,485#869
  4. 470Halo#1,458#988
  5. 348Azaiah#1,230#882
Fallers
  1. 397Khari#827#1,224
  2. 309Karsyn#977#1,286
  3. 256Kye#940#1,196
  4. 225Kole#971#1,196
  5. 224Khai#723#947

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2024