Sakura
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Japanese bank
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sakʰʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sakura is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 214K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 110K
- FIFinland1 in 147K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
1,553 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Japanese bank
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakura 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,553 | 1 in 214K | 1.5K | Sakura | 171 |
| SE Sweden | 93 | 1 in 110K | 93 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 83 | 1 in 603K | 83 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 63 | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 42 | 1 in 411K | 42 | Sakura | 6 |
| FI Finland | 38 | 1 in 147K | 77 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
1,553 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Sakura is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Japanese: cherry blossom
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In German, weibl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. sakura »Kirschbaum«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Portuguese, cherry blossom, sakura (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, cherry tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Japānas ķirsis - rožu dzimtas suga ("Prunus serrulata"), dekoratīvs koks ar baltiem ziediem čemuros
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Sakura Asagib. 1972JPJapanese manga artist
- Sakura Nogawab. 1978JPJapanese voice actress
- Sakura Sakuradab. 1982JPJapanese model and adult video actress
- Sakura Ogurib. 1984JPJapanese tarento, singer and seiyū
- Sakura Andōb. 1986JPJapanese actress
- Sakura Yoshiokab. 1987JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Nichole Sakurab. 1989USAmerican actress
- Sakura Fujiwarab. 1995JPJapanese singer-songwriter and actress
- Sakura Miyawakib. 1998JPJapanese singer and actress (born 1998)
- Sakura Odab. 1999JPJapanese pop singer (born 1999)
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 53 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,107 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 93 | #9,000 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 83 | #18,274 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 77 | #3,584 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 63 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 61 | #10,506 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #56,841 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 58 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 42 | #9,389 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Sakura mean, and where does it come from?
- Japanese bank Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Sakura?
- A machine transcription gives /sakʰʊɹə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Sakura a male or female name?
- Sakura is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sakura have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Sakura, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakura.
- Where is Sakura most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakura is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 110 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sakura?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,553 people named Sakura in 2020, about 1 in 214 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sakura?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakuraThe 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, “Sakura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.