Shakeena
Feminine
Shakeena sounds like Sakina, the Arabic name built on a word the Quran uses for a calm that God sends down into hearts. It also reads as an American build of Sha- and Keena. It stands where those two roads cross, and nothing in the record says which one each family walked.
How old is the name Shakeena?
Shakeena first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Shakeena alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 500 people named Shakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shakeena most popular?
Shakeena peaked in 1983, reaching #2552 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shakeena
Our Shakeena begins beside a word. In the Quran, sakina is the calm sent down on believers at frightened moments, in a cave and on a battlefield, and its cousin in Hebrew, shekhinah, is God's presence settling among people. Shakeena has the sh of the Hebrew and the long ee of the Arabic, and it lands between them without belonging to either. Beside that runs the American road, where Sha- could be joined to almost any ending and Keena ran easily off the tongue. The name holds both roads and does not choose.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is recorded for this spelling. The closest real name is Sakina, from an Arabic word for tranquility or a settled calm, and the Hebrew shekhinah, for God's dwelling presence, grows from the same Semitic root. Whether any family took Shakeena from Sakina, or simply joined Sha- to a Keena ending, is not recorded, so no meaning passes to it.
Pronouncing Shakeena
shuh-KEE-nuh
Stress on the middle syllable, where the double e sits. Sakina takes its stress in the same place and differs mainly in its plain s.
Nicknames for Shakeena
Limited
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
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 198335 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2552reached in 1983
- Change vs 2001
- −44.4%5 in 2006, from 9
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.
Shakeenas among us
people named Shakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shakeena sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds: every letter is said and the stress falls on the double e.
- Close in sound to Sakina, a name with a long history in Muslim families, without being the same name.
- Rare in American records, yet built from pieces English speakers say without help.
- People who know Sakina may assume the two are one name; families who want that link should know the record does not make it.
- Expect Shakina, Shakeenah and Chakeena on forms, so the spelling will need to be given each time.
- Rare enough that she will seldom share it, and easy enough that it is said right after one hearing.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shakeenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Shakeena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shakeena in 2025?
- Shakeena is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shakeena with classmates?
- Shakeena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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