Sky

Where Sky comes from

From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sky
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Sky through the years
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1992
    Sky Ferreira born
    American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
  4. 2008
    Sky Brown born
    British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer
  5. 2021
    Peak, #710
    405 babies named Sky, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Sky Ferreira · American singer-songwriter, model, and actress, born 1992
  • Sky Brown · British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer, born 2008
  • Sky Kim · Australian male archer, born 1982
  • Sky Saxon · American singer, 1937–2009
  • Sky Katz · American actress, rapper and singer, born 2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.