User blog comment:Ms.HamatoAlexander/Foot Recruit's real name?/@comment-995426-20190810005705

Actually, from what I understand, Saki is typically only a female name in Japan. Oroku Saki was never a very realistic name for him (having been named by New Englanders Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird), and because of this, his anime counterpart was more realistically renamed Sawaki Oroku (Oroku Sawaki in Japanese naming order).