Sakka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sakka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 12K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 65K
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 Sakka 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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, 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)
‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse. (Sn. vs. 345)
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #948 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Sakka | 19 |
| IN India | — | 1,465as Saka | 1 in 905K | 1.5K | Sakka | 4 |
| TN Tunisia | #732 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sakka | 28 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Sakka | 35 |
| US United States | — | 532as Saka | 1 in 625K | 860 | Sakka | 66 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Sakka | 33 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Sakka | 38 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Sakka | 16 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Sakka 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, Another form of Sākya (q.v.).’ E.g., A. iv. 195; v. 334. Sakka Saṃyutta.—The eleventh section of the Saṃyutta Nikāya.’ It contains twentyfive short discourses connected with Sakka (q.v.). i S. i. 21642.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, — A Yakkha. See Sakka Sutta (1).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In se, very, extremely
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, Indra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, dense
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)
- Ali Sakkab. 1889TNhead of the tuberculosis department of the Franco-Muslim hospital
- Tadashi Sakkab. 1923JPJapanese businessman (1923-2022)
- Kazuyuki Sakkab. 1943JPJapanese teacher (1943-)
- Abdel Akram al-Saqqab. 1944SYnot in their usual namenon-violent Syrian activist, muslim scholar
- Inas Saqqab. 1970PSnot in their usual namePalestinian artist
- Sara Al-Saqqab. 1992PSnot in their usual namePalestinian surgeon
- Yoshio Sakkab. 2000researcher
- Giorgos K. SakkasGRnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 51 | #35,399 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 24 | #70,309 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Sakka come from?
- ‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse. (Sn. vs. 345) Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- How do you pronounce Sakka?
- A machine transcription gives /səkə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Sakka mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse.
- In which country does Sakka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Sakka in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakka.
- How common is the name Sakka?
- In India, the national register counted 1,465 people named Saka, about 1 in 905 thousand residents.
- How common is Sakka compared with other names?
- In Syria, Sakka is the 948th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakkaThe 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, “Sakka” — the 948th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.