Sakai
Sakai was given to 131 boys in 2025, #1,398 among boys’ names; 644 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sakai?
#1,398 among boys’ names, 2025
Sakai rose from #13,681 in 2015 to #1,398 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 76.7 per million.
131 babies in 2025, the peak
Sakai peaked in 2025, when 131 boys were given it, #1,398 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 59 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 131 | #1,398 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,961 | 59 | #2,391 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 49 | #2,684 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,557 | 57 | #2,462 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,951 | 25 | #4,211 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,249 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 21 | #4,774 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #8,042 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,531 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,893 | 6 | #11,873 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,681 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,856 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 12 | #6,940 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,044 | 10 | #8,024 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,138 | 14 | #6,188 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,084 | 17 | #5,427 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,866 | 13 | #6,740 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,093 | 11 | #7,604 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,162 | 6 | #12,085 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 14 | #6,031 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,641 | 15 | #5,520 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,418 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,855 | 8 | #8,474 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,416 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 7 | #9,042 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #11,285 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,985 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sakai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 644 Americans recorded as Sakai, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 131 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sakai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakai, and how old are they?
An estimated 639 Americans named Sakai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Sakai (87 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 280 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 825 babies since 1880, Sakai is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 150 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sakai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sakai and names like it
- Compare Sakai and SakaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSakai peaked in 2025.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sakai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sakai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.