Sakon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Sakon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.6Kas Sagar(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 1.8Kas สาคร
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.8Kas Sagor
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 Sakon 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930,000 named Sagar, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Sagar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sagor in BD Bangladesh, US United States, Sagar in IN India, สาคร in TH Thailand and Sakol in SE Sweden.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sakon 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 | — | ≈930,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 15K | Sagar | 288 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 165 | Sagor | 81 |
| TH Thailand | #121 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | register #174,623 | สาคร | 96 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Salam | 41 |
| US United States | — | 3,099as Sagar | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Sagor | 302 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,325as Salam | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | Sakol | 20 |
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; Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Sakon 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 duo, kind of palm tree with an edible center
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of sako
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of sakko
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, tokay gecko
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)- Sakon Yamamotob. 1982JPJapanese racecar driver
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sakon a male or female name?
- Sakon 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 Sakon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 929 thousand people named Sagar in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sakon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,099 people named Sagar in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Sakon compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sakon is the 121st most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sakon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakonThe 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, “Sakon” — the 121st most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.