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Saeko

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Saeko has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Saeko, 1928

1 in 377,000

Saeko over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saeko: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Saeko means

Saeko is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saeko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Saeko between 1927 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1928; its best national rank was #4,636 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saeko?

Saeko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 377,000
6 of 2,260,857 births
Among girls only
1 in 192,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
261,186 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saeko sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 261,186 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saeko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saeko was born before 1928 — so the typical Saeko is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Saeko rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (6)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,636
1928

Spellings of Saeko

Saeko is not the most common spelling — Aiko is, with 99.4% against Saeko's 0.61%.

  • Aiko99.4%1,785
  • Saeko0.61%11

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Saeko is used

Across 1910–2025, Saeko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 92,374 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saeko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saeko by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,636
1928
Peak year
1928
6 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saeko

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saeko

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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