Sake
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cause, interest or account
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈseɪk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Sake is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 193K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.8M
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.7M
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 Sake 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
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 193K (inferred from the name graph)
6,877 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)cause, interest or account
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sake 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 6,877 | 1 in 193K | 6.9K | Sake | 65 |
| US United States | 472as Skye | 1 in 705K | 18K | Sake | 32 |
| BE Belgium | 251as Ska | 1 in 47K | 254 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 105as Saki | 1 in 476K | 105 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 4 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 48as Seke | 1 in 88K | 48 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 28as Saki | 1 in 195K | 78 | — | — |
6,877 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)Sake is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, inflection of saka (“one's own”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, sake, saké (Japanese rice wine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, to board, to embark, to ride
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of さけ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, sake (Japanese rice wine)
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)- Iwan Sakeb. 1975SRSurinamese footballer
- Tichani Sakeb. 2001SRSurinamese athletics competitor
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.9K | #1,258 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.5K | #511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Sake mean, and where does it come from?
- cause, interest or account Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sake?
- In English /ˈseɪk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Sake have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Sake, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sake.
- Where is Sake most common?
- Sake is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 193 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sake?
- In India, the national register counted 6,877 people named Sake, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sake?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakeThe 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, “Sake”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.