Sakan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Sakan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: saquer, saccager ; agresser.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.5Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)saquer, saccager ; agresser
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sakan 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.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sakan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of saka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of sakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, second (unit of time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, to fight, quarrel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-oce-pro, to boil food
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Dragan Sakanb. 1950psychologist
- Dariush Sakanb. 1981IRsinger
- Maiku Sakanb. 1983JPbasketball player (1983-)
- Lazar Sakanb. 1985RSSerbian actor and presenter
- Duško Sakanb. 1989BABosnian footballer (born 1989)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 30 | #59,379 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12 | #28,946 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #192,976 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #389,004 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sakan mean, and where does it come from?
- saquer, saccager ; agresser Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Sakan a male or female name?
- Sakan 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.
- In which country does Sakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 943 people named Sakan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakan.
- How common is the name Sakan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 940 people in India have Sakan as their first given name, about 1 in 1.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Sakan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakanThe 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, “Sakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.