Given name & surname
Sakari
“a sweet girl”
Sakari is used as a given name and a surname. One Native American interpretation is “a sweet girl.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American interpretation is “a sweet girl.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Sakari is a short form of SAKARIAS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sakari through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 945
- 296 boys · 649 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 71 babies
- 2025
- 57
- #3,572 for boys · #5,207 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +44%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 32 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,572 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 38.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 25 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Georgia and North Carolina and Virginia shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 553 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sakari’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Sakari has a short form in Kari. In Finnish usage, Sakari shares a linguistic root with the English form Zachary. In Finnish usage, Sakari has a conventional equivalent in the German form Zacharias.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sakari has relatives in 4 languages.
8 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 22
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sakari
- Sakari TuomiojaFinnish politician and diplomat (1911–1964)
- Sakari SalminenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1988
- Sakari MomoiJapanese supercentenarian1903–2015
- Sakari OramoFinnish conductorborn 1965
- Sakari ManninenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1992
- Sakari Mattilafootballerborn 1989
- Sakari KuosmanenFinnish singer and actorborn 1956
- Zachary HietalaFinnish guitaristborn 1962
- Sakari KukkoFinnish musicianborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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