Saki — girls' name
308 babies named Saki in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Saki was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Saki in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Saki
The Social Security Administration has registered 308 babies named Saki between 1986 and 2020, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saki currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Saki performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Saki shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Saki in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Saki 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 308 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.
Saki at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Saki popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1986
- Peak year (1996)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
308 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 16 births in a single year.
Saki popularity over time — boys
11 total births recorded since 2004 (Saki as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Saki accounts for 3% of total recorded use across both genders.
Saki by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 116 births that decade — 38% of Saki's all-time total
Saki decade highlights
- Peak decade 116 births
- Runner-up 86 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Saki's strongest decade
116 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Saki by state
Where Saki concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 16 | 5.2% |
16 of 308 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 5.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.