Saku
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Saku is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Japanese, recorded as Rōmaji transcription of さく.
- FIFinland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 22K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 228K
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 Saku 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,474 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saka in US United States and สาคู in TH Thailand.
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)
a male given name; Zach, Zack
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saku is read(measured from records)
Saku is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saku in Hindi.
- Japanese12%
Rōmaji transcription of さく
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish7.2%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saku 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 4,474 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.7K | Saku | 8 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Saku | 8 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Saku | 7 |
| US United States | 194as Sik | 1 in 1.7M | 970 | Saka | 12 |
| TH Thailand | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 708K | #693,639 | สาคู | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 140 | — | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Saku | 3 |
4,474 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Saku 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 tuw-pro, 1 stale water, muddy water 2 to become turbid, make turbid (of water)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In fj, a swordfish, _Makaira_ spp, of the following kinds: _saku-voro-waŋga_, a large kind that can sink canoes; _saku-laya_, the sawfish proper; _saku-lele_, a small kind
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nlg, to catch, as a young animal as a pet; to catch a person out in a fault
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, first-person singular present indicative of sacīt
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)
- Saku Tsunetab. 1954JPJapanese astronomer
- Saku Laaksonenb. 1970FIFinnish association football player born 1970
- Saku Koivub. 1974FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Saku Puhakainenb. 1975FIFinnish footballer
- Saku Pesonenb. 1985FIFinnish association football player
- Saku Mäenalanenb. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Saku Salminenb. 1994FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
- Saku Kinnunenb. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Saku Savolainenb. 1996FIFinnish association football player
- Saku Ylätupab. 1999FIFinnish association football player
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #31,765 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Saku come from?
- a male given name; Zach, Zack Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Saku mean?
- In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of さく
- Is Saku a male or female name?
- Saku is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Saku?
- In the etymology graph, Zachary, Zach and Zekeriya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Saku have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Saku, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saku.
- Where is Saku most common?
- Saku is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Saku?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,474 people named Saku, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Saku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.