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Sachi vs Sachiko

American parents have registered 1,007 Sachis since 1880, against 662 Sachikos. Sachi is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sachi against Sachiko, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sachi Sachiko

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Sachiko for 41 years and Sachi for 39 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sachi Sachiko
Total US births 1,007662
Most in one year 4831
Babies in 2025 23under 5
Estimated living today 970290
Median age today 1939
Peak year 20041921
Best rank 3,180th girls1,476th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410thunranked
First recorded 19221916
Girls / boys 1,007 / 0662 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sachikos alive today are over 39; half the Sachis are over 19. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sachi and Sachiko.