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#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,116since 1930
Skip over time
Rank among boys' names. Skip has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #12,231 | 5 |
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| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
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| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
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| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #1,766 | 32 |
| 1980 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #2,205 | 21 |
| 1977 | #1,743 | 30 |
| 1976 | #2,113 | 22 |
| 1975 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #1,659 | 29 |
| 1973 | #1,928 | 22 |
| 1972 | #1,603 | 29 |
| 1971 | #1,745 | 26 |
| 1970 | #1,582 | 29 |
| 1969 | #1,642 | 25 |
| 1968 | #1,366 | 32 |
| 1967 | #1,231 | 37 |
| 1966 | #1,373 | 31 |
| 1965 | #1,094 | 46 |
| 1964 | #1,035 | 53 |
| 1963 | #1,027 | 54 |
| 1962 | #926 | 67 |
| 1961 | #928 | 68 |
| 1960 | #752 | 105 |
| 1959 | #834 | 83 |
| 1958 | #771 | 93 |
| 1957 | #928 | 66 |
| 1956 | #910 | 67 |
| 1955 | #874 | 71 |
| 1954 | #1,029 | 53 |
| 1953 | #903 | 63 |
| 1952 | #953 | 56 |
| 1951 | #830 | 72 |
| 1950 | #1,074 | 43 |
| 1949 | #967 | 51 |
| 1948 | #1,037 | 46 |
| 1947 | #916 | 58 |
| 1946 | #1,196 | 34 |
| 1945 | #1,249 | 28 |
| 1944 | #1,328 | 25 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #2,042 | 13 |
| 1941 | #1,903 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,671 | 8 |
| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Skip! It came in at #4,001, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1931, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Skip is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#552 · 1 in 15,982
- California#677 · 1 in 17,600
- New York#748 · 1 in 29,042
- Texas#992 · 1 in 24,188
Best ever in a state: #338 in Washington, 1960.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #552 | 6 | 1 in 15,982 |
| California | #677 | 9 | 1 in 17,600 |
| New York | #748 | 6 | 1 in 29,042 |
| Texas | #992 | 5 | 1 in 24,188 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Skip
- 23 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #6,446)
- 1,056 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #6,446)
- Biggest jump: 280 spots in 1947 (#1,196 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 1961 (#752 → #928)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1960 at #752 (105 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1955–1962
- Highest: 1 in 20,308 boys born in 1960 were named Skip (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.5% of all boys named Skip (667) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 36 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,322 |
| 1940s | 296 | #916 (1947) | #1,495 |
| 1950s | 667 | #771 (1958) | #911 |
| 1960s | 518 | #752 (1960) | #1,137 |
| 1970s | 260 | #1,582 (1970) | #1,840 |
| 1980s | 187 | #1,766 (1981) | #3,301 |
| 1990s | 33 | #5,942 (1991) | #7,078 |
| 2000s | 5 | #11,472 (2005) | #11,472 |
| 2010s | 45 | #8,146 (2016) | #10,598 |
| 2020s | 69 | #5,874 (2022) | #7,133 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Skip in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
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2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 29,013 of them was named Skip, which outranked 80.1% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).