# Sakari (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sakari/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 945 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 296 / 649 (69% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 5,695 |
| 2012 | 30 | 4,814 |
| 2013 | 26 | 5,287 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,997 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,419 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,322 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7,776 |
| 2018 | 17 | 7,053 |
| 2019 | 30 | 4,633 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,525 |
| 2021 | 34 | 4,227 |
| 2022 | 36 | 4,096 |
| 2023 | 35 | 4,174 |
| 2024 | 27 | 5,005 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,207 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 12,092 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,847 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,703 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,470 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,934 |
| 2016 | 15 | 6,002 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,603 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,585 |
| 2019 | 28 | 3,881 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,123 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,515 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,395 |
| 2023 | 36 | 3,333 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,091 |
| 2025 | 32 | 3,572 |

## People named Sakari

- Sakari Tuomioja, Finnish politician and diplomat (1911–1964)
- Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Finnish politician (1830-1903)
- Sakari Salminen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Sakari Oramo, Finnish conductor
- Sakari Manninen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Sakari Mattila, footballer
- Sakari Kuosmanen, Finnish singer and actor
- Sakari Kukko, Finnish musician
- Sakari Puisto, Finnish politician
- Sakari Lindfors, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
- Sakari Pälsi, Finnish writer (1882–1965)
- Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish politician (born 1946)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.