Meaning not yet researched.
Sakari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,091 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,091 in 2024; #3,572 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Sakari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,572 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,091.
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Sakari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,091 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 40 (2024).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Sakari, making it the 3,572nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 481 places from #3,091 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 40 boys named Sakari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,091, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #7,934 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Sakari, making it the 5,207th most common girls’ name of the year, down 202 places from #5,005 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 27 girls named Sakari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,720, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #6,419 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sakari in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 945 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 355 babies named Sakari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US boys were named Sakari; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zachary (553,281 babies since 1880), Zachariah (31,275 babies since 1880), Zechariah (11,369 babies since 1880) and Zakaria (3,349 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Sakari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,207 | 32 | #3,572 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,005 | 40 | #3,091 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,174 | 36 | #3,333 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,096 | 18 | #5,395 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,227 | 17 | #5,515 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,525 | 25 | #4,123 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,633 | 28 | #3,881 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,053 | 22 | #4,585 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,776 | 13 | #6,603 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,322 | 15 | #6,002 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,419 | 10 | #7,934 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,997 | 8 | #9,470 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,287 | 5 | #13,703 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,814 | 5 | #13,847 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,695 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,455 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,293 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,315 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,923 | 6 | #12,092 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,964 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,349 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,843 | 5 | #11,977 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,154 | 5 | #11,294 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,143 | — | — |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,058 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,412 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,027 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,517 | — | — |
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).