Entry № 10074 · Arabic origin

Sukaina Sukaina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-KIE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Little tranquil one (Husayn's daughter)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "little tranquil one (husayn's daughter)".

Sukaina (سكينة) is the diminutive of the Arabic sakīna (tranquility, divine presence). Sayyida Sukaina bint al-Husayn (c. 671-735) was the daughter of Imam Husayn and great-granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad — a poet and patron of literature in early Islamic Medina.

Highly venerated in Shia Islam.

Little tranquil one. The Prophet's great-granddaughter.

The name in its native script.

سكينة
Transliteration
Sukayna
Pronunciation
/ suːˈkaɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sukaina stands.

Sukaina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sukainas before her.

Real people
Sukaina bint al-Husayn
Prophet Muhammad's great-granddaughter.
c. 671 – 735
In fiction
Sukaina
Common in Arabic-Islamic fiction.

Names connected to Sukaina.

The number behind Sukaina.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sukaina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.