Sachi
Feminine · “Happiness”
Sachi is Japanese for happiness or good fortune, and it is one of the small set of Japanese given names that also work as English words to look at — four letters, two open syllables, nothing an English speaker cannot say.
How old is the name Sachi?
Sachi first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Sachi alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,000 people named Sachi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sachi most popular?
Sachi peaked in 2001, reaching #3091 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 2,319 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
Where it comes from
From 幸 to Sachi
The story of Sachi
幸 is an ordinary Japanese character and appears in a family of names — Sachi, Sachiko, Yukiko, Yuki — all built on the same idea of good fortune. Sachiko was among the most common Japanese women's names of the mid-twentieth century, and Sachi is its shorter form and a name in its own right. Japanese-American families carried both, and the American record shows Sachi thinly through the twentieth century, with a peak in 2001 that reflects both those families and the much broader American familiarity with Japanese names that anime and manga produced from the 1990s.
Meaningscholars disagree
Happiness, good fortune, blessing
Japanese Sachi is most often written 幸, meaning happiness or good fortune, and that reading is standard; other kanji are used and carry different senses. A separate Sanskrit Śacī is the name of Indra's consort in Hindu tradition, meaning power or eloquence, and is a genuine Indian name unrelated to the Japanese one. The romanised spelling serves both.
How the name formed
- 幸
- Sachi
Related forms: さち · 幸 · शची
Pronouncing Sachi
SAH-chee
Two syllables, both short and even. Japanese gives them equal weight rather than stressing one; American speakers put the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Sachi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most girls named
- 200448 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3091reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- +21.1%23 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sachi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- さち in Japanese — transliteration
- 幸 in Japanese — transliteration
- शची in Sanskrit — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Sachis among us
people named Sachi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Sachi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sachi
- #5410
- Sachi on the 2025 chart
- #923
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sachi went to 23 girls in 2025, but Saachi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 923rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,487 places above the chart.
- Sachi23
- Saachi14
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Sachi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Adamae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sachi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adamae climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adamae's path sketches the road Sachi is walking now.
Sachi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sachi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sachi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, short and about as pleasant as a meaning gets.
- Four letters and two open syllables travel anywhere.
- Every sound in it exists in English.
- The meaning depends on characters the romanised spelling does not carry.
- Sachi, Sachiko and Sachie are all in use in Japanese families.
- The Japanese and Sanskrit sources are unrelated.
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Feminine · #5410 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sachis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Sachi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sachi?
- Sachi is the most-used spelling in US records — 23 of the 37 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Saachi.
- How popular is the name Sachi in 2025?
- Sachi ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sachi?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Sachi — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sachi with classmates?
- Sachi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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