Sayaka
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sayaka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 86th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- JPJapan1 in 1.3K◐
- USUnited States1 in 465K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈815 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 123 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
51K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled สะยาคะ in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #86 | 54,778 | 49K rec. | — | — | Sayaka | 123 |
| US United States | — | 716 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 465K | 1K | Sayaka | 117 |
| TH Thailand | — | 300 | 181 rec. | — | — | สะยาคะ | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 75 | 72 rec. | — | — | Sayaka | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 49 | 49 rec. | — | listed | Sayaka | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | 48 | 41 rec. | — | — | Sayaka | 12 |
| IN India | — | 46 | 9 rec. | — | 4 | Sayaka | 4 |
| PH Philippines | — | 41 | 17 rec. | — | — | Sayaka | 11 |
| PE Peru | — | 32 | 7 rec. | — | — | Sayaka | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 25△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 2M | 25 | Sayaka | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 24 | — | 1 in 8.8M | 919 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | — | 1 in 2.1M | 18 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese56K88%
- Hindi3.3K5%
- English2.1K3%
- Spanish6261%
- French3291%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 56,446 | 88% |
| Hindi | 3,272 | 5% |
| English | 2,116 | 3% |
| Spanish | 626 | 1% |
| French | 329 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1948 | 2 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 2 |
| 1959 | 1 |
| 1960 | 2 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 3 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 2 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 4 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 12 |
| 1973 | 13 |
| 1974 | 18 |
| 1975 | 18 |
| 1976 | 28 |
| 1977 | 39 |
| 1978 | 27 |
| 1979 | 20 |
| 1980 | 26 |
| 1981 | 34 |
| 1982 | 46 |
| 1983 | 40 |
| 1984 | 63 |
| 1985 | 62 |
| 1986 | 79 |
| 1987 | 53 |
| 1988 | 45 |
| 1989 | 65 |
| 1990 | 79 |
| 1991 | 58 |
| 1992 | 96 |
| 1993 | 104 |
| 1994 | 94 |
| 1995 | 91 |
| 1996 | 44 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1998 | 25 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 4 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 62 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sayaka Itōb. 1963JPJapanese actor, singer and tarento
- Sayaka Aokib. 1973JPJapanese television personality and comedian
- Sayaka Oharab. 1975JPJapanese voice actress (born 1975)
- Sayaka Muratab. 1979JPJapanese writer
- Sayaka Shojib. 1983JPJapanese violinist
- Sayaka Kandab. 1986JPJapanese actress, singer, voice actor (1986-2021)
- Sayaka Akimotob. 1988JPJapanese actor
- Sayaka Nakayab. 1991JPJapanese voice actress
- Sayaka Okadab. 1994JPJapanese mahjong player, gravure model, talent, singer
- Sayaka Senbongib. 1995JPJapanese voice actress
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sayaka?
- We estimate roughly 815 people bear Sayaka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sayaka have the most bearers?
- Sayaka is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled sayaka.
- How common is Sayaka compared with other names?
- In Japan, Sayaka is the 86th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Sayaka a male or female name?
- Sayaka is a female 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.
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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, “Sayaka” — the 86th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.