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Saki

Girls' name

Blossom + hope

Saki has been given to 319 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1996, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Saki, 2020

1 in 477,000

Saki over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saki: meaning, origin, and history

Blossom + hope

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saki means

Saki means “blossom + hope”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Saki is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sä.kʲi/ for Saki.

Origin, language, and formation

Saki is used in Sandawe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 308 girls were recorded with the name Saki between 1986 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1996; its best national rank was #5,998 in 1996.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Saki between 2004 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #11,092 in 2004.

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 Saki?

Saki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saki 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saki was born before 2001 — so the typical Saki is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
308
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Saki 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (16)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,998
1996

Spellings of Saki

Saki is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 36.0% against Saki's 0.03%.

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 Saki is used

Across 1910–2025, Saki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,000,798 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Saki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saki around the world

Where Saki ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    1991–2015
    #7,402
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1973–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saki 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
—
Best rank ever
#5,998
1996
Peak year
1996
16 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
308
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,092
2004
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saki

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

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Sibling names for Saki

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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