Skye
#529 for girls in 2025, 569 births · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to girls 89.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 887 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 24,262since 1952
Skye over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #529 | 569 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #479 | 644 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #445 | 687 | #2,113 | 69 |
| 2022 | #414 | 760 | #2,217 | 65 |
| 2021 | #428 | 737 | #2,134 | 67 |
| 2020 | #465 | 664 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #419 | 753 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #414 | 748 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #422 | 752 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #417 | 797 | #2,012 | 71 |
| 2015 | #384 | 856 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #367 | 887 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #424 | 718 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #446 | 703 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 2011 | #475 | 624 | #2,284 | 56 |
| 2010 | #492 | 615 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2009 | #490 | 627 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #501 | 623 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #471 | 681 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #431 | 740 | #2,082 | 63 |
| 2005 | #422 | 734 | #1,725 | 77 |
| 2004 | #400 | 760 | #2,419 | 46 |
| 2003 | #414 | 727 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | #446 | 648 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #461 | 602 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #480 | 566 | #1,429 | 86 |
| 1999 | #509 | 507 | #1,580 | 69 |
| 1998 | #491 | 516 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #454 | 557 | #1,350 | 82 |
| 1996 | #580 | 396 | #1,292 | 85 |
| 1995 | #628 | 349 | #1,338 | 77 |
| 1994 | #682 | 308 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #690 | 313 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #724 | 295 | #1,643 | 53 |
| 1991 | #702 | 303 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #688 | 308 | #1,615 | 51 |
| 1989 | #789 | 241 | #1,766 | 43 |
| 1988 | #784 | 240 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #748 | 240 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #1,203 | 116 | #1,565 | 42 |
| 1985 | #1,323 | 100 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #1,355 | 88 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #1,194 | 108 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #1,213 | 110 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,328 | 94 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #1,178 | 112 | #1,319 | 49 |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 | #2,012 | 24 |
| 1977 | #1,315 | 88 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #1,343 | 80 | #1,873 | 26 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #1,414 | 72 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #2,212 | 36 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,005 | 29 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Skye! It came in at #4,908, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Skye is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#207 · 1 in 562
- Connecticut#268 · 1 in 1,064
- Maryland#272 · 1 in 1,147
- Florida#276 · 1 in 1,305
- Georgia#295 · 1 in 1,392
Best ever in a state: #67 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #207 | 6 | 1 in 562 |
| Connecticut | #268 | 11 | 1 in 1,064 |
| Maryland | #272 | 21 | 1 in 1,147 |
| Florida | #276 | 61 | 1 in 1,305 |
| Georgia | #295 | 34 | 1 in 1,392 |
| New York | #298 | 63 | 1 in 1,465 |
| Nevada | #300 | 9 | 1 in 1,147 |
| New Jersey | #312 | 25 | 1 in 1,461 |
| Oklahoma | #318 | 13 | 1 in 1,268 |
| Virginia | #333 | 24 | 1 in 1,516 |
| Louisiana | #340 | 14 | 1 in 1,407 |
| Missouri | #375 | 16 | 1 in 1,683 |
| Nebraska | #411 | 5 | 1 in 1,550 |
| Iowa | #419 | 7 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Illinois | #444 | 27 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Michigan | #444 | 19 | 1 in 2,167 |
| Ohio | #454 | 22 | 1 in 2,344 |
| Wisconsin | #458 | 11 | 1 in 2,095 |
| Pennsylvania | #468 | 23 | 1 in 2,294 |
| Arizona | #472 | 15 | 1 in 2,065 |
| Kentucky | #483 | 8 | 1 in 2,268 |
| Texas | #484 | 65 | 1 in 2,436 |
| Massachusetts | #485 | 10 | 1 in 2,543 |
| South Carolina | #499 | 8 | 1 in 2,178 |
| Alabama | #518 | 8 | 1 in 2,308 |
| North Carolina | #533 | 17 | 1 in 2,585 |
| California | #550 | 72 | 1 in 2,904 |
| Utah | #561 | 7 | 1 in 2,558 |
| Tennessee | #563 | 11 | 1 in 2,715 |
| Indiana | #599 | 10 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Kansas | #602 | 5 | 1 in 2,632 |
| Washington | #641 | 10 | 1 in 3,045 |
| Colorado | #696 | 7 | 1 in 3,200 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Skye
- 50 spots since 2024 (#479 → #529)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#465 → #529)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#384 → #529)
- Biggest jump: 455 spots in 1987 (#1,203 → #748)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2025 (#479 → #529)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 2014 at #367 (887 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,014 girls born in 2014 were named Skye (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,825 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 30.7% of all girls named Skye (7,453) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 57 | #2,005 (1956) | #3,589 |
| 1960s | 56 | #4,539 (1963) | #5,573 |
| 1970s | 635 | #1,178 (1979) | #1,827 |
| 1980s | 1,440 | #748 (1987) | #1,120 |
| 1990s | 3,852 | #454 (1997) | #615 |
| 2000s | 6,708 | #400 (2004) | #452 |
| 2010s | 7,453 | #367 (2014) | #426 |
| 2020s | 4,061 | #414 (2022) | #460 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Skye in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,505 of them was named Skye, which outranked 97.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 33,280 of them was named Skye, which outranked 84.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,238Trever58
- #2,238Vedant58
- #2,238Yechiel58
- #2,270Skye57
- #2,270Arik57
- #2,270Ashtin57
- #2,270Ashwin57
- #2,292Aadi56
- #2,292Aizen56
- #2,292Ameen56
Tied with 21 names at #2,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.