Sakeenah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-KEE-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Sakeenah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “tranquillity, calm”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Sakeenah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sakeena
“tranquillity, calm”
Sakina, the peace sent down by God, is mentioned several times in the Quran.
Meaning borrowed from Sakeena.
Is Sakeenah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sakeenah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sakeenah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Sakeenah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sakeenah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 65 girls in the UK were given Sakeenah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #598, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Sakeenah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
Names like Sakeenah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Umaymah Sumayyah Safiya Umamah Nusaybah Safa Aaliyah Musfirah Ruqayyah Azeemah Farah Aaminah
Other spellings of Sakeenah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sakeenah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sakeenah, updated 20 October 2026.