Sakka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/sˈakka/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Sakka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Sakka is also written Сака in Cyrillic and Σακκα in Greek.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 6.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 11K
- GRGreece≈1 in 22Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sakka in other scripts: Cyrillic and Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Σακκα in GR Greece.
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.
How to pronounce Sakka
- Indonesian:/sˈakka/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Turkish:/sakka/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse. (Sn. vs. 345)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sakka is found
(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 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Sakka | 19 |
| TN Tunisia | #732 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Sakka | 28 |
| IN India | — | 1,465as Saka | 1 in 905K | 1.5K | Sakka | 4 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Sakka | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Sakka | 33 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 10 | Σακκα | 37 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Sakka | 38 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | 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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)- Tadashi Sakkab. 1923JPJapanese businessman (1923-2022)
- Kazuyuki Sakkab. 1943JPJapanese teacher (1943-)
- Sara Al-Saqqab. 1992PSnot in their usual namePalestinian surgeon
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /sˈakka/; in Turkish /sakka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Sakka mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Sakka/Śakra’; used as a title for the Buddha in verse.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sakka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Sakka in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakka. After it come Tunisia, India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 2026-10-13.