Sakata
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑˈkɑtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sakata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 坂田 (Sakata).
- BRBrazil1 in 210K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 180K
- USUnited States1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)
1,006 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 坂田 (Sakata).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,006 | 1 in 210K | 1K | Sakata | 72 |
| US United States | 851 | 1 in 391K | 851 | Sakata | 59 |
| IN India | 36 | 1 in 37M | 36 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | Sakata | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
1,006 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Sakata is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, to stall (exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to go at something
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, to scatter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Shoichi Sakatab. 1911JPJapanese physicist (1911–1970)
- Harold Sakatab. 1920USAmerican sportsman and actor (1920-1982)
- Akira Sakatab. 1945JPJapanese jazz saxophonist, actor, researcher (1945-)
- Osamu Sakatab. 1952JPJapanese actors
- Jeanne Sakatab. 1954USAmerican actress
- Michiko Shimizub. 1960JPnot in their usual nameJapanese comedian and actress
- Eiko Koikeb. 1980JPnot in their usual nameactress
- Daisuke Sakatab. 1983JPJapanese association football player
- Ryo Sakatab. 1986JPJapanese baseball player
- Shōgo Sakatab. 1998JPJapanese voice actor
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #9,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 851 | #28,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 846 | #26,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 790 | #31,403 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 183 | #4,330 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 36 | #54,911 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #34,163 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #48,462 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Sakata mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 坂田 (Sakata). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sakata?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑˈkɑtə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Sakata have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Sakata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakata.
- Where is Sakata most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakata is densest in Finland — about 1 in 180 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sakata?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,006 people named Sakata, about 1 in 210 thousand 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/sakataThe 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, “Sakata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.