Sakeena
Sakeena was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,259 among girls’ names; 601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakeena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sakeena?
#8,259 among girls’ names, 2025
Sakeena rose from #11,676 in 2015 to #8,259 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
23 babies in 1981, the peak
Sakeena peaked in 1981, when 23 girls were given it, #3,601 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,259 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,342 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,012 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,268 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,002 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,085 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,552 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,526 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,460 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,676 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,432 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,939 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,139 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,265 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,680 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,298 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,965 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,687 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,628 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,766 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,696 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,363 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,629 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,866 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,163 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,644 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,333 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,958 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,239 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,373 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,921 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,457 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,198 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,588 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,117 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,217 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,600 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,030 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,675 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,083 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,300 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,601 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,108 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,868 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,212 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,725 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,260 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,428 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,956 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,739 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,195 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,900 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,600 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,824 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,841 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sakeena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sakeena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sakeena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakeena, and how old are they?
An estimated 583 Americans named Sakeena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 16 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Sakeena (515 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,463 babies since 1880, Sakeena is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 77 babies (17%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sakeena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sakeena and names like it
- Compare Sakeena and SakinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSakeena peaked in 1981.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakeena since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Sakeena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sakeena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.