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
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  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 — more than any year before or since.
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.