Sakura
Sakura was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,925 among girls’ names; 1,783 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Sakura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sakura mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sakura is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese さくら (Sakura).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sakura?
#2,925 among girls’ names, 2025
Sakura fell from #2,680 in 2015 to #2,925 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 36.1 per million.
87 babies in 2012, the peak
Sakura peaked in 2012, when 87 girls were given it, #2,186 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,925 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,006 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,419 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,208 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,921 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,056 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,812 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,835 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,593 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,859 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,680 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,732 | 35.8 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,429 | 42.7 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,186 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,321 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,380 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,311 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,507 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,453 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,751 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,957 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,730 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,279 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,928 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,588 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,276 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,136 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,310 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,599 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,476 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,303 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,018 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,512 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,323 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,312 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,069 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,336 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,405 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,572 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,058 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,749 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,978 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,507 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,026 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sakura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sakura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sakura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakura, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,783 Americans ever recorded as Sakura. The median Sakura alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,553 people named Sakura (1,542 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,462 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 879 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 771 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sakura born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,061 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,108 | 0.2× |
Where Sakura is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sakura is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sakura with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,071 babies since 1880, Sakura is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 121 babies (48%), 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 Sakura
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 Sakura and names like it
- Compare Sakura and SakariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSakura peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakura since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Sakura: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Sakura.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sakura alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.