Sakha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Siva (N)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sakha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 168K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 399K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 488K
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 Sakha 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, 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)
Siva (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakha 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | listed | Sakha | 12 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 168K | 1 | — | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Sakha | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 488K | 27 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | 315 | Sakha | 17 |
| FI Finland | 9as Sakhi | 1 in 619K | 47 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 9as Sakhi | 1 in 652K | 30 | — | — |
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 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Sakha 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 English, A person of Sakha ethnicity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In suk, thicket
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Arabic, generosity, liberality
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Aymara, Se»tído,hendido,
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Sakha mean, and where does it come from?
- Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Sakha a male or female name?
- Sakha is a female 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 Sakha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 332 people named Sakha in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakha.
- How common is the name Sakha?
- In Finland, the national register counted 9 people named Sakhi, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakhaThe 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, “Sakha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.