girls:
84 births since 2003
#5632 (1st percentile)
boys:
363 births since 1998
#4223 (8th percentile)
overall:
447 births since 1998
#7292 (6th percentile)
The name Sakai is the #7,292 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 447 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,223 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 363 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,632 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 2003.
Sakai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Sakai is available in 25 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sakai has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Sakai were boys.
For boys, Sakai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #873) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 30 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sakai ranks #867 for boys (4.8% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 89.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sakai reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #952) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sakai".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sakai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Sakai is pronounced as suh-KAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sah-KAH-ee, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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