Given name
Saksham
“capable, competent”
Saksham is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “capable, competent.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saksham through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 85
- 85 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −71%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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