Given name
Sakiko
“one who wears a cloak”·“one who is cloaked”
Sakiko is a variant of Saki. Interpretations include “one who wears a cloak” (Japanese) and “one who is cloaked” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sakiko is a variant of Saki. Interpretations include “one who wears a cloak” (Japanese) and “one who is cloaked” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sakiko is a variant of Saki. An origin associated with Saki is Japanese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sakiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 209 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.
Sakiko’s family of names
Sakiko has a related form in Saki. In Japanese usage, Sakiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of さきこ. In English usage, Sakiko was borrowed from the Japanese form さきこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sakiko
- Sakiko IkedaJapanese association football playerborn 1992
- Sakiko MatsuiJapanese female talent, pianistborn 1990
- Sakiko ShimizuJapanese swimmerborn 1992
- Konoe SakikoNyogo (court lady) of emperor Go-Yōzei. mother of Go-Mizunoo1575–1630
- Sakiko Fukuda-ParrJapanese economistborn 1950
- Sakiko YamaokaJapanese performance artistborn 1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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