Sakari
Feminine · “the Lord has remembered”
Sakari is given to both — 649 girls and 296 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Sakari is a Finnish man's name, and in Finland it is Zechariah: Sakarias worn down the way Finnish wears everything down. In American records it appears as a woman's name, arriving from a different direction entirely, through the Sa- opening and the -ari ending that a whole set of recent names share.
How old is the name Sakari?
Sakari first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Sakari alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 600 people named Sakari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sakari most popular?
Sakari peaked in 2006, reaching #3669 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 1,430 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Zekharyah to Sakari
The story of Sakari
Finnish reshapes borrowed names thoroughly: Johannes becomes Juhani and Jussi, Zechariah becomes Sakari and Sakke. It has been a Finnish man's name for centuries. Separately, American families in the last thirty years have been building names on a -ari ending, and Sakari sits comfortably in that set beside Kamari and Amari. The two histories are unconnected, and the spelling gives no clue which a family means.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Lord has remembered, on the Finnish reading
Finnish Sakari comes from Sakarias, the Finnish form of Zechariah, Hebrew Zekharyah, the Lord has remembered. That line is documented. The American women's name behaves instead like a member of the Kamari and Amari rhyme family, and no source joins the two.
How the name formed
- Zekharyah
- Sakarias
- Sakari
Related forms: Sakari · Zachariah · זכריה
Pronouncing Sakari
suh-KAR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle, in American use. Finnish says SAH-kah-ree with the weight firmly in front, as Finnish always does.
Nicknames for Sakari
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 200642 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3669reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- −7.4%25 in 2025, from 27
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.
Sakari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sakari in Finnish — same name
- Zachariah in English — related form
- זכריה in Hebrew — transliteration
Sakaris among us
people named Sakari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Sakari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kendrah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sakari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kendrah climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kendrah's path sketches the road Sakari is walking now.
Sakari 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
Where Sakari is headed
Sakari should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sakari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sakari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kari works as a short form and is a complete name in Scandinavia.
- It has a documented Finnish history available for families who want one.
- Three open syllables make it easy for English speakers to say.
- In Finland the name belongs to men, which is worth knowing if the family has Finnish connections.
- Sakari, Sakura and Zakari are close enough to be confused in American writing.
- The stress differs between Finnish and American use.
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Feminine · #5099 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sakaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sakari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sakari in 2025?
- Sakari ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sakari?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Sakari — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sakari with classmates?
- Sakari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sakari
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