Sakai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- sah-KY
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #1,393 for boys
Sakai is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,393rd for boys in the US (131 babies).
Where does Sakai come from?
Japanese: Japanese surname and place name
Is Sakai a girl's or a boy's name?
Sakai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 131 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sakai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,393among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 131about 1 in 13,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 335% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 131 boys in the US were named Sakai, making it the 1,393rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most boys named Sakai of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Sakai in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sakai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,393 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,370 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,659 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,437 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,273 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
Names like Sakai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru Kairo Kasai Kenzo Kaizen Loki Akari Rumi Yuri Yug Kota Ryu
Names related to Sakai
More Japanese names
Kobe Raiden Ren Ronin Kyomi Akira Yuna Emi Kiyomi Kairi Miya Kenji Reo Jiraiya Aizen Sora
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sakai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sakai, updated 20 October 2026.