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Saksham

Boys' name

Capable, competent

Saksham has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Saksham, 2024

1 in 669,000

Saksham over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saksham: meaning, origin, and history

Capable, competent

Sanskrit

What Saksham means

Saksham means “capable, competent”, associated with sakṣama.

Origin, language, and formation

Saksham is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 boys were recorded with the name Saksham between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #8,043 in 2018.

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 Saksham?

Saksham had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saksham sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saksham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sakshams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saksham was born before 2016 — so the typical Saksham is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Saksham 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 2018 (10)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,043
2018

Spellings of Saksham

Saksham is not the most common spelling — Akshay is, with 37.1% against Saksham's 1.7%.

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.

Saksham around the world

Where Saksham 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
    2009–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saksham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,043
2018
Peak year
2018
10 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saksham

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

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Sibling names for Saksham

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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