Sakura

Where Sakura comes from

Borrowed from Japanese さくら (Sakura).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sakura
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,995 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2012
    Peak, #2,160
    87 babies named Sakura — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.