Sakari
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakari is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, quite popular since the 19th century.
- FIFinland1 in 89◐
- SESweden1 in 6.7K
- EEEstonia1 in 25K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈64K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 94 ●
- 1 in 89 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
2.1K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Сакари in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, quite popular since the 19th century
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #29 | 62,412△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 89 | 85K | Sakari | 94 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,529△ | 43 rec. | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | Sakari | 28 |
| US United States | — | 395 | 225 rec. | 1 in 842K | 395 | Sakari | 72 |
| EE Estonia | — | 151 | 126 rec. | — | listed | Sakari | 6 |
| IN India | — | 127 | 29 rec. | — | 66 | Sakari | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 53 | 49 rec. | — | 12 | Sakari | 7 |
| RU Russia | — | 36 | 27 rec. | — | — | Сакари | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 29 | 19 rec. | — | — | Sakari | 16 |
| PL Poland | — | 26 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 26 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | 24 | 23 rec. | — | — | Sakari | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 14 | 10 rec. | — | — | Sakari | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 13 | 12 rec. | — | 1 | Sakari | 9 |
Roughly 62K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 89). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish319K97%
- Hindi4.6K1%
- English1.4K1%
- 4521%
- Indonesian4251%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 319,106 | 97% |
| Hindi | 4,576 | 1% |
| English | 1,447 | 1% |
| 452 | 1% | |
| Indonesian | 425 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sakari is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Zacharias.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
sweet
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 3 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 12 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1920–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinenb. 1830FIFinnish politician (1830–1903)
- Eino Kailab. 1890FInot in their usual nameFinnish philosopher and psychologist (1890–1958)
- Sakari Tuomiojab. 1911FIFinnish politician and diplomat (1911–1964)
- Sakari Jurkkab. 1923FIFinnish actor (1923–2012)
- Timo Suomalainenb. 1928FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect (1928–2021)
- Erkki Tuomiojab. 1946FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (born 1946)
- Sakari Kuosmanenb. 1956FIFinnish singer and actor
- Tuomo Ylipullib. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish ski jumper (1965–2021)
- Sakari Oramob. 1965FIFinnish conductor
- Mikko Koivub. 1983FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85K | #27 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 62K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 395 | #19,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 335 | #9,504 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 207 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 205 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 205 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 203 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 203 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 203 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 203 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 243 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sakari?
- We estimate roughly 64 thousand people bear Sakari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sakari have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 62 thousand people bear Sakari in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sakari.
- Where is Sakari most common?
- Sakari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 89 people carrying it.
- How common is Sakari compared with other names?
- In Finland, Sakari is the 29th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Sakari a male or female name?
- Sakari is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sakari mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, quite popular since the 19th century
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sakari” — the 29th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.