Entry № 9094 · Japanese origin

Sakuya Sakuya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-KOO-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"To bloom; blossom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "to bloom; blossom".

Sakuya comes from the blossom-goddess Konohanasakuya-hime; it carries the sense of blooming and flowering.

To bloom; blossom — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Sakuya
Transliteration
Sakuya
Pronunciation
/ saˈku.ja /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sakuya stands.

Sakuya 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.

Sakuyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Sakuya.

The number behind Sakuya.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakuya reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.