Sakinah
Sakinah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,081 among girls’ names; 1,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Sakinah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 21 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sakinah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sakinah?
#7,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Sakinah rose from #9,387 in 2015 to #7,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 10.0 per million.
52 babies in 1976, the peak
Sakinah peaked in 1976, when 52 girls were given it, #1,814 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,081 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,950 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,572 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,600 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,003 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,136 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,632 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,428 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,565 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,709 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,387 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,772 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,124 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,025 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,616 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,816 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,766 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,404 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,028 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,783 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,643 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,620 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,135 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,086 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,332 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,455 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,381 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,133 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,816 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,048 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,388 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,654 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,770 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,939 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,170 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,009 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,438 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,803 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,014 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,525 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,093 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,132 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,766 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,938 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,221 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,525 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,976 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,665 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,547 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,814 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,314 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,895 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,614 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,576 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,048 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sakinah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sakinah 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 Sakinah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sakinah, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,055 Americans ever recorded as Sakinah. The median Sakinah alive today is 36 years old; half are between 21 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 842 people named Sakinah (842 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 296 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 341 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 233 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Sakinah born?
The states with the most babies named Sakinah are New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 113 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| New York | 96 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 82 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sakinah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sakinah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 3.7 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 Sakinah 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 2,917 babies since 1880, Sakinah is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 80 babies (20%), 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 Sakinah
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 Sakinah and names like it
- Compare Sakinah and SakinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSakinah peaked in 1976.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sakinah since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Sakinah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sakinah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.