Sayaka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səjəkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sayaka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name.
- JPJapan≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 463K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 155K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 810 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled สะยาคะ in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sayaka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #87 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 810 | — | Sayaka | 127 |
| US United States | — | 718 | 1 in 463K | 1K | Sayaka | 130 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 628K | — | Sayaka | 21 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | สะยาคะ | 28 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Sayaka | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sayaka Itōb. 1963JPJapanese actor, singer and tarento
- Sayaka Aokib. 1973JPJapanese television personality and comedian
- Sayaka Oharab. 1975JPJapanese voice actress (born 1975)
- Sayaka Muratab. 1979JPJapanese writer
- Sayaka Shojib. 1983JPJapanese violinist
- Sayaka Kandab. 1986JPJapanese actress, singer, voice actor (1986-2021)
- Sayaka Akimotob. 1988JPJapanese actor
- Sayaka Nakayab. 1991JPJapanese voice actress
- Sayaka Okadab. 1994JPJapanese mahjong player, gravure model, talent, singer
- Sayaka Senbongib. 1995JPJapanese voice actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 716 | #15,884 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 15 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #6,236 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #15,884 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Sayaka?
- A machine transcription gives /səjəkə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Sayaka a male or female name?
- Sayaka 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 Sayaka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 155 thousand people named Sayaka in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayaka.
- How common is the name Sayaka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 718 people named Sayaka in 2020, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
- How common is Sayaka compared with other names?
- In Japan, Sayaka is the 87th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sayaka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sayakaThe 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, “Sayaka” — the 87th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.