Sakai — #2378 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sakai

The Social Security Administration has registered 423 babies named Sakai between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sakai currently holds the #2378 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 59 babies received it in a single year. Sakai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 90 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sakai performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sakai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Sakai in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sakai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 423 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.