Sokhna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in England and Wales.
Sokhna by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Sokhna. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 14 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Sokhna
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sokhna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Sophiawisdom14,848 in the US (2017)
- Solanasunshine or solar11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sakinatranquility; peace; serenity38 in England and Wales (2025)
- Sophyawisdom; a spelling variant of Sophia21 in the US (2017)
- Sohanabeautiful or attractive15 in the US (2017)
- Sophinawisdom; a form of Sophia15 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Sokhna
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