Sakas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sakas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 430Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
169 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Plg. Sdkas (žr.). Tai greičiausiai iš krikšto vardo Išakijus trumpinio atsiradusios pvd., plg. brus. Сак: Исаакий (M. Бирыла, 1966, c. 143), bulg. Сако : Исак (C. Илчев, 1969, c. 437), vok. Sack : Isaak (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 350; H. Bahlow, 1967, p. 441). Galbūt galima ir kitokia Šių pvd. kilmė, plg. brus. Сак: Сакердон (M. Бирыла, 1966, c. 143) arba brus. Сак, Сакау (to paties, 1969, c. 361). SAKAS-SAKfiVIČIUS Klm - žr. Sakas, Sakevičius
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sakas 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 | 169 | 1 in 2M | 189 | Sakas | 115 |
| GR Greece | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 149K | 1 | Sakas | 11 |
| IL Israel | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Sakas | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Sakas | 3 |
| BJ Benin | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 540K | — | Sakas | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Sakas | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Sakas | 1 |
169 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)Sakas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, passive infinitive of saka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, collar (for a horse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Aizjūga piederums, ko mauc darba dzīvniekiem kaklā un kas ir veidots no divdaļīgām izliektām koka detaļām, kuras apakšdaļā ir savelkamas; pie tā piesaistītās dzeņaukstes pārnes zirga vilcējspēku uz velkamo priekšmetu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sveķi
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)- Jonas Sakasb. 1912LTLithuanian artist
- Brenna Sakasb. 1984USMiss Arizona USA 2006
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 149 | #121,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Sakas?
- In Spanish /sakas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sakas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 169 people named Sakas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakas.
- How common is the name Sakas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 169 people named Sakas in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakasThe 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, “Sakas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.