Sakinah

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sakinah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Malay, recorded as inner peace, tranquility, calmness.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 27K
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 38K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,900 people, est.

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inner peace, tranquility, calmness

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Sakinah is read(measured from records)

Sakinah is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Malay37%

    inner peace, tranquility, calmness

    as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English30%

    Arabic: peace of mind, tranquility

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  • Hindi14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sakinah in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sakinah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sakinah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈9,900 est.≈1 in 27KlistedSakinah103
MY Malaysia#447≈4,400 est.≈1 in 7.3K3Sakinah48
SA Saudi Arabia—≈900 est.≈1 in 38KlistedSakinah28
US United States—8421 in 395K842Sakinah62
NG Nigeria—≈820 est.≈1 in 260K—Sakinah8
GH Ghana—≈270 est.≈1 in 111K—Sakinah1
SG Singapore—≈130 est.≈1 in 49K—Sakinah16

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: This page lists the top 100 names in Malaysia for boys and girls, published by Students of the World.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sakinah is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sakīnah

  • Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Sakīnah

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Sâkinah, Sãkinåh

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sa-Kinah, Sakīnah

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sakinah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Calmness,

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Sakinah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sakinah mean, and where does it come from?
inner peace, tranquility, calmness Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Sakinah a male or female name?
Sakinah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sakinah have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Sakinah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakinah.
How common is the name Sakinah?
In the United States, the national register counted 842 people named Sakinah in 2020, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
How common is Sakinah compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Sakinah is the 447th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sakinah” — the 447th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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