Sakala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kala (N); Krsna (N); Laksmana (N); Siva (N); (Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections, 2021
/sakala/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Sakala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 581 people, counted by Instate. In Zambia it is the 8th most common surname. Sakala is also written Сакала in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 315K
- BEBelgium1 in 510K
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 Sakala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
581 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sakala in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Сакала in UA Ukraine.
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.
How to pronounce Sakala
- Swahili:/sakala/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Kala (N); Krsna (N); Laksmana (N); Siva (N);
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sakala is found
(measured from records)Sakala 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.
581 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Sakala 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 pi, whole, entire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, sala Indonēzijā, Bali jūras ziemeļaustrumu daļā, Kaneanas salu austrumos, Austrumjavas provinces teritorija
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)- Jaroslav Sakalab. 1969CZCzech ski jumper
- Fashion Sakalab. 1997ZMZambian association football player
- Eunice Sakalab. 2002ZMZambian footballer (born 2002)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sakala?
- In Swahili /sakala/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Sakala mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kala (N); Krsna (N); Laksmana (N); Siva (N);
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sakala?
- In India, the national register counted about 581 people named Sakala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakala. After it come United States, Finland, Ukraine and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sakala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakala is densest in Finland — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sakala?
- In India, the national register counted 581 people named Sakala, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Sakala compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Sakala is the 8th most common surname of 16,584 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/sakalaThe 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, “Sakala” — ranked 8268th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.