Sakai is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zakai, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Sakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,398 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Sakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,398 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Sakai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,398 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 131 (2025).
In 2025, 131 US boys were named Sakai, making it the 1,398th most common boys’ name of the year, up 993 places from #2,391 in 2024. That is 72 more than the 59 boys named Sakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,398, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 131. For comparison, it was #13,687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Sakai in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #9,562, reached in 2022. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12, in 2009. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sakai in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 5 babies. In all, 644 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 368 babies named Sakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 390 US boys were named Sakai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,039 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sakai ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #701 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zakai (4,070 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sakai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #701 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #754 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #842 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #855 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,090 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,182 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,222 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,238 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,254 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,431 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,540 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,171 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,886 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 131 | #1,398 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,966 | 59 | #2,391 |
| 2023 | — | — | 49 | #2,685 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,562 | 57 | #2,463 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,956 | 25 | #4,215 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,253 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,778 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #8,046 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,536 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,898 | 6 | #11,878 |
| 2015 | — | — | 5 | #13,687 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #11,862 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,945 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,051 | 10 | #8,030 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,145 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,090 | 17 | #5,430 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,870 | 13 | #6,744 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,099 | 11 | #7,609 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,168 | 6 | #12,091 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #6,035 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,647 | 15 | #5,526 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,424 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,862 | 8 | #8,481 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,423 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #9,049 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,293 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,994 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).