Sakura (桜) is the Japanese word for cherry blossom — the small pink flower that appears for a few weeks each spring and then falls, central to Japanese aesthetic philosophy as a symbol of the beauty and impermanence of life. The annual hanami (flower viewing) festival is a cultural anchor of Japanese spring.
Sakura has been used as a girl's name in Japan for over a century and has been one of the most popular names in the country for the past two decades. In the West, the name's recognition has been amplified by manga and anime (Sakura Haruno from Naruto; Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura). A name that means "the most beautiful thing that does not last."
Sakura 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakura reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.