Sakura — #2981 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Sakura

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,725 babies named Sakura between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sakura currently holds the #2981 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sakura performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 702 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sakura shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 312 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sakura in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sakura 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 1,725 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.