Entry № 9082 · Inuit origin

Sakari Sakari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-KAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Inuit
Meaning
"Sweet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Inuit)

A name that means "sweet".

Sakari is an Inuit name meaning "sweet." Used across the circumpolar Inuit communities of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.

Sakari is rare but rising as Indigenous names gain recognition.

Sweet. The Inuit endearment.

The name in its native script.

Sakari
Transliteration
Sakari
Pronunciation
/ səˈkɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sakari stands.

Sakari does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sakaris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sakari
Common in Inuit fiction.

Names connected to Sakari.

The number behind Sakari.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakari reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.