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    The surname Saka

    A Japanese place surname, carried by 532 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S200

    Saka: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Saka #40,976, 532 people Saka: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Saka #40,976, 532 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saka is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    Japanese origin

    Borrowed from Japanese 坂(さか) (Saka); sometimes used as a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.

    Saka is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 123 Japanese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 532 people named Saka in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. That is up 45% since 2000, when the Census counted 367.

    #40,976
    rank among US surnames
    532
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +45%
    change since 2000 (was #52,935)

    Who is named Saka

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    47% of people named Saka identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Saca

    Surnames that sound like Saka

    Saka has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other Japanese surnames

    All 123 Japanese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Saka come from?
    Borrowed from Japanese 坂(さか) (Saka); sometimes used as a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.
    How common is the surname Saka?
    532 people in the United States had the surname Saka in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. It ranked 40,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Saka?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Saka identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Saka?
    Saka is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Saka getting more or less common?
    More common. 367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 532 in 2010, up 45%.
    What are other spellings of Saka?
    Saca.