Sakina
Sakina was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,889 among girls’ names; 1,607 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Sakina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sakina?
#2,889 among girls’ names, 2025
Sakina rose from #4,212 in 2015 to #2,889 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 36.7 per million.
59 babies in 2025, the peak
Sakina peaked in 2025, when 59 girls were given it, #2,889 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 58 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,889 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,885 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,755 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,067 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,868 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,440 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,604 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,290 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,788 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,822 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,212 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,165 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,631 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,687 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,036 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,944 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,911 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,739 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,550 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,342 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,747 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,161 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,638 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,957 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,417 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,861 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,995 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,340 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,629 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,999 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,886 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,403 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,854 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,938 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,786 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,787 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,802 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,440 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,711 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,910 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,247 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,691 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,242 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,151 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,133 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,299 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,716 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,608 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,976 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,163 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,863 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,074 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,757 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,036 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,440 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,434 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,420 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,630 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,561 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,218 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sakina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sakina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sakina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakina, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,607 Americans ever recorded as Sakina. The median Sakina alive today is 22 years old; half are between 10 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,189 people named Sakina (2,184 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 237 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 326 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 457 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 533 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sakina born?
The states with the most babies named Sakina are New York, Texas and California, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,633 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,713 | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,449 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,584 | 0.4× |
Where Sakina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sakina is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sakina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,263 babies since 1880, Sakina is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 88 babies (67%), again the 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 Sakina
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 Sakina and names like it
- Compare Sakina and SakinahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSakina peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakina since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sakina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sakina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.