Sukayna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-KAY-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Sukayna is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “little tranquillity”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Sukayna mean?
Arabic: diminutive of sakina 'tranquillity'
“little tranquillity”
Sukayna bint al-Husayn, great-granddaughter of the Prophet, was famed for her wit and poetry gatherings.
Is Sukayna a girl's or a boy's name?
Sukayna 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 Sukayna in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 56% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Sukayna, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sukayna in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were given Sukayna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,870, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Sukaina 9
- Sukayna 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Sukayna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
Names like Sukayna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Amira Khadija Hafsa Abeeha Hiba Liyana Safiya Zainab Nusaybah Sama Ayah
Other spellings of Sukayna
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir 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, “Sukayna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sukayna, updated 20 October 2026.