Sakeena
Feminine · “Arabic "tranquility”
Sakina and Shekhinah are the same word. Arabic sakīna is a tranquility that God sends down; Hebrew Shekhinah is the divine presence dwelling among people. Both are built on the root for dwelling, and both name God settling in a place.
How old is the name Sakeena?
Sakeena first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Sakeena alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 600 people named Sakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sakeena most popular?
Sakeena peaked in 1976, reaching #3188 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 4,697 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From s-k-n to Sakeena
The story of Sakeena
The shared root is one of the clearest Hebrew-Arabic correspondences in religious vocabulary, and the two traditions developed it in parallel rather than by borrowing. In Jewish usage the Shekhinah is the presence of God as it rests on the sanctuary or on a community, and it acquired a considerable mystical literature. In Islamic usage sakina appears in several Qur'anic passages as a calm that descends at moments of fear, and commentators discuss whether it is a state, a presence or something visible. The same root gives the Arabic word for a house and the Hebrew word for a neighbor, one who dwells nearby. Sakeena peaks in America in 1976.
Meaning
Arabic "tranquility, divine calm"
From the root s-k-n, to dwell or be still, giving sakan, a dwelling, and sakīna, calm or repose. In the Qur'an sakina is something God sends down into the hearts of believers. Hebrew shekhinah, from the cognate root sh-k-n, names the indwelling presence of God, and the Hebrew mishkan is the tabernacle — the dwelling place.
How the name formed
- s-k-n
- sakīna
- Sakeena
Related forms: سكينة · Sakina · سکینہ
Pronouncing Sakeena
sah-KEE-nah
Three syllables, stress on the second, with a long ee. The doubled e is a length mark, not two sounds; Sakina with a single i is the same name.
Nicknames for Sakeena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 198123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3188reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%13 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sakeena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- سكينة in Arabic — transliteration
- Sakina in English — spelling variant
- سکینہ in Urdu — transliteration
Sakeenas among us
people named Sakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Sakeena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sakeena
- #7885
- Sakeena on the 2025 chart
- #942
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sakeena went to 13 girls in 2025, but Sakeenah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 18, which makes it the 942nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,943 places above the chart.
- Sakeena13
- Sakeenah5
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Sakeena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lylian test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sakeena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lylian climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lylian's path sketches the road Sakeena is walking now.
Sakeena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sakeena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sakeena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and unusually peaceful.
- Keena works as a short form.
- It is used across the Arab world and South Asia.
- Sakina is the more common transliteration.
- It is easily confused with the Japanese word sake in writing.
- It is rare in the United States and will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sakeenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sakeena?
- Sakeena is the most-used spelling in US records — 13 of the 18 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Sakeenah.
- How popular is the name Sakeena in 2025?
- Sakeena ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sakeena?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Sakeena — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sakeena with classmates?
- Sakeena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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