Skina
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: naampy, 1996
Skina is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: back; spine; ridge.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 830few recordsas Sakina(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2Kas Sakina
- MAMorocco≈1 in 4.7Kas Sakina
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Skina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 826 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Sakina, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est., as Sakina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sakina in IN India, US United States, NG Nigeria and 3 more, Sakeena in PK Pakistan and Сакина in AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)back; spine; ridge
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Skina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 44 | Sakina | 111 |
| TZ Tanzania | #263 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Sakina | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Sakina | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | #101 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Sakeena | 46 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 826 | listed | Сакина | 22 |
| MA Morocco | #880 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Sakina | 36 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Sakina | 19 |
| US United States | — | 2,189as Sakina | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Sakina | 245 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Skina is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, third-person singular present of skinti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, a small plate covering a keyhole
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, spine, ridge (of an animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, Clipping of eskina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sqj-pro, ash, ashes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, bar, track
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1989 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1996 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1983 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Skina mean, and where does it come from?
- back; spine; ridge Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Skina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 177 thousand people named Sakina in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Skina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,189 people named Sakina in 2020, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Skina compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Skina is the 101st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Skina” — the 101st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.