Sakơ

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sakơ is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Japanese 佐香 (Sakō) or 酒向 (Sakō). * Borrowed from a West African language; this surname is predominantly found in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali.

  • SESweden1 in 227K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 338K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 494K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

568 people, 2010

Record sources
7 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 227K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sako in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Japanese 佐香 (Sakō) or 酒向 (Sakō). * Borrowed from a West African language; this surname is predominantly found in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Sakơ is found

(measured from records)

Sakơ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sakơ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5681 in 586K806Sako7
BR Brazil2721 in 778K272—1
ES Spain1481 in 338K148——
SE Sweden451 in 227K45—1
CH Switzerland171 in 494K17——
NO Norway101 in 547K40—1

568 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sakơ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Japan, Türkiye

    Languages: French, English, Japanese

    Also written Sako, Şako, Sakö, Sakō, Sa-Ko

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sakơ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sakơ mean, and where does it come from?
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Japanese 佐香 (Sakō) or 酒向 (Sakō). * Borrowed from a West African language; this surname is predominantly found in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Sakơ a male or female name?
Sakơ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Sakơ?
In the United States, the national register counted about 568 people named Sakơ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sako. After it come Brazil, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Sakơ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakơ is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 227 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sakơ?
In the United States, the national register counted 568 people named Sakơ in 2010, about 1 in 586 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Sakơ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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