Saka
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/saka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.8K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saka is read(measured from records)
Saka is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish42%
European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Evlere çeşmeden su taşıyan kimse. 2. Serçegillerden, başında ve boynunda kırmızı, sarı tüyler bulunan, güzel öttüğü için kafeste beslenen küçük bir kuş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English29%
A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.8%
to chase, to hunt down, to track down, to search for
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saka in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saka 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Saka | 26 |
| TR Türkiye | #434 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Saka | 81 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,647as Saca | 1 in 3.6K | 4.6K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,498as Sciacca | 1 in 222K | 1.5K | Saka | 85 |
| IN India | — | 1,465 | 1 in 905K | 1.5K | Saka | 11 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Saka | 6 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Saka | 15 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Saka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, foot of the mountain
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tuw-pro, hunt, hunting
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nakasuke Sakab. 1870JPJapanese bureaucrat and businessman
- Hasan Sakab. 1885TRTurkish politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey (1885–1960)
- Chiaki Sakab. 1895JPJapanese politician
- Serafim Sacab. 1935MDnot in their usual nameMoldovan writer
- Fuat Sakab. 1952TRTurkish musician (born 1952)
- Gizem Sakab. 1978TRTurkish economist and painter (born 1978)
- Katsuhiko Sakab. 1985JPJapanese baseball player
- Bukayo Sakab. 2001GBEnglish footballer (born 2001)
- Berke Sakab. 2003TRTurkish swimmer (born 2003)
- Yoshimi SakaJPJapanese seiyū
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3K | #1,162 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #4,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 860 | #29,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 532 | #40,976 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 367 | #52,935 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Saka come from?
- A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saka?
- A machine transcription gives /saka/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Saka mean?
- In Turkish, European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
- In which country does Saka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 thousand people named Saka in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saka.
- How common is the name Saka?
- In India, the national register counted 1,465 people named Saka, about 1 in 905 thousand residents.
- How common is Saka compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Saka is the 434th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Saka” — the 434th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.