Saken
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saken is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 1.8Kas Сакен
- RURussia≈1 in 444Kas Сакен
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 Saken itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Сакен, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Сакен in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saken 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | #277 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | Сакен | 44 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Сакен | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 444K | — | Сакен | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Сакен | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Сакен | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 19 | 1 in 2M | 19 | — | — |
| SY Syria | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Saken | 6 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Saken 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 Bokmål, definite masculine singular of sak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of sake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of sak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, inflection of sāke:
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #287,319 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Saken a male or female name?
- Saken is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Saken have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Сакен in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Saken?
- In Poland, the national register counted 19 people named Saken in 2026, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Saken compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Saken is the 277th most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakenThe 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, “Saken” — the 277th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.