Sakuma
surname · Latin script
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Sakuma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 411K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 621K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
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 Sakuma 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 411K (inferred from the name graph)
536 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled สะกุมา 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)
Look for relatives.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakuma 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.
536 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Sakuma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, japanski propagator zapadnjačkog utjecaja i civilizacije u Japanu, čiji je slogan »istočnjačka etika i zapadnjačka znanost« postao bazom japanske modernizacije kasnog 19. st.; zalagao se za otvaranje Japana prema Europi; ubijen od nacionalistički nastrojenih samuraja
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Sakuma Shōzanb. 1811JPJapanese politician (1811-1864)
- Samata Sakumab. 1844JPJapanese general (1844-1915)
- Tsutomu Sakumab. 1879JPJapanese navy officer
- Yoshiko Sakumab. 1939JPJapanese actress
- Natsumi Sakumab. 1944JPJapanese seiyū
- Bob Sakumab. 1949JPJapanese musician
- Satoru Sakumab. 1963JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Rei Sakumab. 1965JPJapanese voice actress
- Kumi Sakumab. 1976JPJapanese voice actress
- Nobuko Sakumab. 1988JPJapanese actor and seiyū
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 541 | #38,464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 536 | #40,745 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 515 | #16,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 507 | #45,457 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #81,801 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sakuma mean, and where does it come from?
- Look for relatives. Recorded by The African book of names.
- In which country does Sakuma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 536 people named Sakuma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakuma.
- Where is Sakuma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakuma is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 411 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sakuma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 536 people named Sakuma in 2010, about 1 in 621 thousand residents.
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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, “Sakuma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.