Sakara

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Sakara by the numbers

Sakara was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 13 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Sakara

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sakara. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Samaraprotected by god; or from samaria1,002 in the US (2017)
  • Saharadesert; from the Sahara region123 in the US (2017)
  • Sakuracherry blossom68 in the US (2017)
  • Sakarigod has remembered; Finnish form of Zacharias28 in the US (2017)
  • Saaraprincess; variant of Sarah17 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Sayara3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Sakara

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