Skip

#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births

Peak · boys
1960 · 105 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,116
since 1930

Skip over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Skip has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #752, 1960boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,44613
2024#6,46913
2023#8,9218
2022#5,87415
2021#7,58710
2020#7,50210
2019#9,7567
2018#8,8198
2017#12,2465
2016#8,1469
2015—
2014#10,7176
2013—
2012#12,2745
2011—
2010#12,2315
2009—
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2005#11,4725
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1996#7,9716
1995—
1994—
1993#7,6386
1992#7,4226
1991#5,9428
1990#6,4157
1989#4,81110
1988#4,16211
1987#6,9515
1986#3,26814
1985#3,40113
1984#2,95615
1983#1,78731
1982#1,99927
1981#1,76632
1980#1,91029
1979#1,99126
1978#2,20521
1977#1,74330
1976#2,11322
1975#1,83526
1974#1,65929
1973#1,92822
1972#1,60329
1971#1,74526
1970#1,58229
1969#1,64225
1968#1,36632
1967#1,23137
1966#1,37331
1965#1,09446
1964#1,03553
1963#1,02754
1962#92667
1961#92868
1960#752105
1959#83483
1958#77193
1957#92866
1956#91067
1955#87471
1954#1,02953
1953#90363
1952#95356
1951#83072
1950#1,07443
1949#96751
1948#1,03746
1947#91658
1946#1,19634
1945#1,24928
1944#1,32825
1943#1,63619
1942#2,04213
1941#1,90314
1940#2,6718
1939#3,1136
1938#3,1756
1937#2,9057
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1930#4,0015
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First appearance
1930

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 1974

No state had 5 or more boys named Skip in 1974, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Skip
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1930
  • Peaked 1960 at #752 (105 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1955–1962
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,308
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 31.5% of all boys named Skip (667) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s36#2,905 (1937)#3,322
1940s296#916 (1947)#1,495
1950s667#771 (1958)#911
1960s518#752 (1960)#1,137
1970s260#1,582 (1970)#1,840
1980s187#1,766 (1981)#3,301
1990s33#5,942 (1991)#7,078
2000s5#11,472 (2005)#11,472
2010s45#8,146 (2016)#10,598
2020s69#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 1974

boys
#1,659
29 births · 1 in 54,218 boys

Top boys' names in 1974

  1. #1Michael67,534
  2. #2Jason54,756
  3. #3Christopher48,585
  4. #4David41,786
  5. #5James41,334
  6. #6John37,612
  7. #7Robert37,005
  8. #8Brian34,449
  9. #9Matthew27,194
  10. #10William26,980
  11. #1,659Skip29
More about 1974

boys

1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 54,218 of them was named Skip, which outranked 72.4% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Skip
  1. #1,618Tiffany30
  2. #1,618Tyrell30
  3. #1,618Ubaldo30
  4. #1,659Skip29
  5. #1,659Alphonse29
  6. #1,659Ambrose29
  7. #1,659Arlo29
  8. #1,692Alonza28
  9. #1,692Antonino28
  10. #1,692Arik28

Tied with 32 names at #1,659; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,544Rashad#4,505 → #961
  2. ↑ 844Telly#1,312 → #468
  3. ↑ 398Jabari#1,312 → #914
  4. ↑ 356Ahmad#1,123 → #767
  5. ↑ 356Toma#1,238 → #882
Fallers
  1. ↓ 383Parrish#987 → #1,370
  2. ↓ 378Fredric#957 → #1,335
  3. ↓ 346Jory#753 → #1,099
  4. ↓ 301Vidal#834 → #1,135
  5. ↓ 277Pat#847 → #1,124

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974 →