Sakari

loc · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, quite popular since the 19th century

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/səkɑɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sakari is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland
  • RURussia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SakariLatin(measured from records)
СакариCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Сакари in FI Finland, RU Russia.

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 male given name, quite popular since the 19th century

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sakari counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sakari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland—85KСакари104
RU Russia——Сакари16
SE Sweden—1.5K—31
US United States—395—74
IN India—66—5

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sakari is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written সাঁকারি, Sakārī

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Śakāri

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Şakari

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sẳkẳrỉ

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sakari 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 Swedish, Se Zacharias.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • sweet

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

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)

18001850190019502000Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, b. 1830Eino Kaila, b. 1890Sakari Tuomioja, b. 1911Sakari Jurkka, b. 1923Timo Suomalainen, b. 1928Erkki Tuomioja, b. 1946Sakari Kuosmanen, b. 1956Tuomo Ylipulli, b. 1965Sakari Oramo, b. 1965Mikko Koivu, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Sakari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—335#4,888
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—124—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—66#37,117
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—65#10,222
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—8#108,864
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Sakari mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, quite popular since the 19th century Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sakari?
A machine transcription gives /səkɑɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Sakari have the most bearers?
Sakari is most frequently recorded in Finland, where it is most often spelled сакари.

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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, “Sakari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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