Sakeenah
Sakeenah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,830 among girls’ names; 255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakeenah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sakeenah?
#16,830 among girls’ names, 2025
Sakeenah rose from #18,637 in 2015 to #16,830 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
21 babies in 1979, the peak
Sakeenah peaked in 1979, when 21 girls were given it, #3,750 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,830 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,241 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,995 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,378 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,637 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,043 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,897 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,570 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,654 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,161 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #12,137 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,351 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,082 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,256 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,753 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,954 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,589 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,797 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,325 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,419 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,190 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,958 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,267 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,507 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,965 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,750 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,736 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,872 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,840 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sakeenah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sakeenah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sakeenah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakeenah, and how old are they?
An estimated 247 Americans named Sakeenah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 28 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 267 people named Sakeenah (267 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 1,911 babies since 1880, Sakeenah is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 34 babies (15%), again the third 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 Sakeenah
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 Sakeenah and names like it
- Compare Sakeenah and SakinahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSakeenah peaked in 1979.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakeenah since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Sakeenah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sakeenah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.