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Sakura

#2,925 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Sakura has been given to 1,783 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,925 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Sakura, 2025

1 in 57,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sakura: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Sakura means

Sakura is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include cherry blossom.

Origin, language, and formation

Sakura is used in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Japanese.

Sakura comes through Japanese さくら.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Sakura is pronounced /sa.ku.ʁa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,783 girls were recorded with the name Sakura between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,186 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,056 in 2020 to #2,925 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,680 in 2015 to #2,925 in 2025.

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 Sakura?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,925
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sakura 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 2025 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sakura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sakuras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sakura was born before 2011 — so the typical Sakura is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,783
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (702).

Is Sakura 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
+81
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+131
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−245
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2012 (87)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,186
2012

Spellings of Sakura

Sakura is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 39.3% against Sakura's 0.08%.

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 Sakura is used

Across 2016–2025, Sakura was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 37,934 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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.

Sakura around the world

Where Sakura 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
    2002–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,511
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Sakura by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 131
Best rank ever
#2,186
2012
Peak year
2012
87 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,783
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Sakura

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

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Sibling names for Sakura

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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