Saki

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Saki is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of さき.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 1.3K◐
  • SESweden1 in 237K
  • FIFinland1 in 310K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈618 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
116 ●

53K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 237K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Rōmaji transcription of さき

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Saki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#7857,71052K rec.——Saki116
US United States—533499 rec.1 in 624K533Saki102
IN India—522190 rec.—758Saki26
CN China—518 rec.——Saki12
ES Spain—4834 rec.—105Saki9
KG Kyrgyzstan—450 rec.——Saki1
SE Sweden—430 rec.1 in 237K43—4
CA Canada—3737 rec.——Saki19
MY Malaysia—3548 rec.——Saki9
NG Nigeria—340 rec.——Saki11
GB United Kingdom—3131 rec.——Saki22
FI Finland—18—1 in 310K54——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese59K70%
  • Hindi7K8%
  • Turkish5.5K7%
  • English3K4%
  • Swahili1.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese58,99170%
Hindi7,0168%
Turkish5,5127%
English3,0134%
Swahili1,8192%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Saki is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name10K records spelled Saki3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Şaki

  • English given name10K records spelled Saki30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Saeki, SaKy, Šaki, Şaki, Śâkî

  • Turkish surname8.2K records spelled Saki15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Syria, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şaki, Seki, Şeki, Şəki, Sâki

  • French given name3.0K records spelled Saki8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Belgium

    Also written SaKy, Şaki, Sàki, Sàkï, Saký

  • a separate given name1.7K records spelled Saki5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iran

    Also written Sāḳī, Saḵī, Şaki, Sākī

  • Indonesian given name997 records spelled Saki2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Nigeria, Malaysia

    Also written Şaki

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Saki is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Su veren, su dağıtan. 2. Kadehle içki sunan.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In English, pen name o/H.H. Munro

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Alternative spelling of saké (“rice wine”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, synonym of teman (“friend”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mva, stamp one’s foot on the floor of the house

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

02040601920194019601980200044 · 1966

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Saki in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1919–2015
Yearrecords
19191
19231
19242
19252
19291
19301
19313
19322
19333
19344
19353
19366
19376
19384
19397
19408
19419
19428
19438
194411
194511
194614
194712
19488
194911
195010
195114
195211
195311
195412
195516
195613
195715
195812
195919
196022
196128
196226
196328
196423
196520
196644
196737
196839
196937
197023
197124
197235
197336
197425
197537
197639
197728
197831
197926
198029
198124
198231
198326
198418
198528
198634
198725
198828
198925
199022
199128
199222
199330
199424
199525
19969
199711
19986
20101
20112
20121
20132
20143
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 80 years between 1919–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Saki Takaoka, b. 1972Saki Fujita, b. 1984Saki Aibu, b. 1985Saki Kumagai, b. 1990Saki Hatsumi, b. 1990Saki Nitta, b. 1990Saki Shimizu, b. 1991Mori Saki, b. 1993Saki Nakajima, b. 1994Saki Shirai, b. 2000

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 46 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Saki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—758#6,763
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020533#17,879
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—410#8,293
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—410#1,177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020221#89,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010203#90,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000153#107,565
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—105#26,683
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—105#26,536
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202076#17,879
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—64#87,998
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—54#8,228

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 281 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saki?
We estimate roughly 618 people bear Saki (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Saki have the most bearers?
Saki is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled saki.
How common is Saki compared with other names?
In Japan, Saki is the 78th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Saki a male or female name?
Saki is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Saki mean?
Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of さき
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Saki” — the 78th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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