In 2025, 58 US girls were named Sakura, making it the 2,925th most common girls’ name of the year, up 81 places from #3,006 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 55 girls named Sakura in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,186, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #2,680 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sakura in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 1,783 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 702 babies named Sakura.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 570 US girls were named Sakura; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sakura ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,061 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zakira, Zakyra and Sakara are summarised on this page.