Sakari
About 945 American babies have been named Sakari since 1993, most of them around 2006. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,099th. About 940 Sakaris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sakari boys named Sakari
Girls and boys called Sakari
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 649 girls and 296 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 25 to 32.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 15 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 945
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 3,669th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,099th
- First recorded
- 1993
- Girls / boys
- 649 / 296
How old the living Sakaris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 945 babies given the name since 1993, about 940 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sakaris
- Sakari Tuomioja (1911–1964)Finnish politician and diplomat
- Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (1830–1903)Finnish politician
- Sakari Salminen (born 1988)Finnish ice hockey player
- Sakari Oramo (born 1965)Finnish conductor
- Sakari Mattila (born 1989)footballer
- Sakari Manninen (born 1992)Finnish ice hockey player
- Sakari Momoi (1903–2015)Japanese supercentenarian
- Sakari Kuosmanen (born 1956)Finnish singer and actor
People named Sakari with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sakari is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Sakari peaked:
Sakari among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Sakari | 3,718 | 62,232 |
| Finland girls | Sakari | — | 12 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 62,232 who carry it, 3,718 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sakari against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.