Sakura
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 87 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,783since 1970
Sakura over time
Rank among girls' names. Sakura has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 |
| 2017 | #2,573 | 68 |
| 2016 | #2,829 | 60 |
| 2015 | #2,646 | 67 |
| 2014 | #2,714 | 64 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 |
| 2011 | #2,298 | 81 |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,485 | 76 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,728 | 65 |
| 2005 | #2,935 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,711 | 60 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 |
| 2001 | #2,571 | 59 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sakura! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sakura
- 81 spots since 2024 (#2,976 → #2,895)
- 120 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #2,895)
- 249 spots since 2015 (#2,646 → #2,895)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2012 at #2,160 (87 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,242 girls born in 2012 were named Sakura (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.4% of all girls named Sakura (702) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #7,995 (1970) | #9,103 |
| 1980s | 41 | #6,955 (1989) | #9,340 |
| 1990s | 113 | #5,123 (1998) | #7,991 |
| 2000s | 595 | #2,286 (2009) | #2,942 |
| 2010s | 702 | #2,160 (2012) | #2,558 |
| 2020s | 322 | #2,892 (2021) | #3,056 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sakura in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 20,242 of them was named Sakura, which outranked 88.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,145Nataleigh88
- #2,145Symone88
- #2,145Zaniah88
- #2,160Sakura87
- #2,160Analee87
- #2,160Anja87
- #2,160Bentlee87
- #2,189Alanis86
- #2,189Alonna86
- #2,189Annalyse86
Tied with 28 names at #2,160; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.