Sakinah
#7,081 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sakinah has been given to 1,055 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,081 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Sakinah, 2025
1 in 207,000
Sakinah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sakinah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,081
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sakinah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sakinah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sakinahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sakinah was born before 1989 — so the typical Sakinah is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,055
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (275).
Is Sakinah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +3,869
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,055
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,306
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.8%
- Peak was 1976 (52)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sakinah
Sakinah is not the most common spelling — Savanah is, with 9.8% against Sakinah's 1.0%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Sakinah is used
Across 1910–2025, Sakinah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 163,733 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6Minnesota1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sakinah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sakinah around the world
Where Sakinah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#2,440in 2025
- France1998–2025#2,162in 2025
- Canada2016–2022#2,318in 2022
- South Australia2004–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sakinah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sakinah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sakinah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.