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Sachiko vs Sachin

American parents have registered 1,412 Sachins since 1880, against 662 Sachikos. Sachin is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sachiko against Sachin, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sachiko Sachin

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 83 years in which either name was published, Sachin for 53 years and Sachiko for 30 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sachiko Sachin
Total US births 6621,412
Most in one year 3151
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 2901,400
Median age today 3921
Peak year 19212011
Best rank 1,476th girls2,437th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,608th
First recorded 19161972
Girls / boys 662 / 00 / 1,412

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 Sachins are over 21. That is 18 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: Sachiko and Sachin.