MEANING & HISTORY
What does Sakina mean?
Sakina is an established Arabic name with a calmness or peace meaning, also recorded in Urdu. The editorial entry supplies the Arabic spelling سكينة and keeps related Persian and Turkish forms distinct.
A documented language tradition can be explained without assuming the ancestry of a Philippine bearer. The meaning describes the name’s lexical background, not a guaranteed personality trait.
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Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Arabic
Similar names to Sakina
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- Sarina♀Diminutive of Sara; sometimes a Serena variant
- Aina♀Finnish Aino variant; also independent Anna and Japanese forms
- Alina♀Short form of Adelina, Albina, or other -alina names
- Carina♀Dear or beloved in the Latin-name account
- Halina♀Calm; Slavic form in the Galina family
- Janina♀God is gracious; a John-family feminine form
- Karina♀Karin-family form, or a spelling of Carina
- Kina♀Cebuano clipping of Joaquina
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Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
SAKINA
· CSV row 405 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.