Skyla
#983 for girls in 2025, 257 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 605 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,344since 1959
Skyla over time
Rank among girls' names. Skyla has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #983 | 257 |
| 2024 | #848 | 319 |
| 2023 | #808 | 346 |
| 2022 | #758 | 380 |
| 2021 | #629 | 471 |
| 2020 | #633 | 458 |
| 2019 | #573 | 531 |
| 2018 | #555 | 560 |
| 2017 | #557 | 553 |
| 2016 | #547 | 570 |
| 2015 | #550 | 564 |
| 2014 | #533 | 583 |
| 2013 | #538 | 552 |
| 2012 | #504 | 605 |
| 2011 | #516 | 568 |
| 2010 | #554 | 527 |
| 2009 | #537 | 561 |
| 2008 | #597 | 523 |
| 2007 | #629 | 474 |
| 2006 | #597 | 487 |
| 2005 | #564 | 508 |
| 2004 | #585 | 481 |
| 2003 | #625 | 429 |
| 2002 | #612 | 418 |
| 2001 | #620 | 406 |
| 2000 | #666 | 364 |
| 1999 | #741 | 302 |
| 1998 | #842 | 253 |
| 1997 | #1,281 | 137 |
| 1996 | #1,348 | 125 |
| 1995 | #1,401 | 117 |
| 1994 | #1,707 | 87 |
| 1993 | #1,569 | 98 |
| 1992 | #1,704 | 88 |
| 1991 | #1,599 | 95 |
| 1990 | #1,397 | 113 |
| 1989 | #2,250 | 53 |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #3,233 | 26 |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Skyla! It came in at #4,625, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Skyla is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#126 · 1 in 428
- New Hampshire#224 · 1 in 779
- Massachusetts#277 · 1 in 1,217
- Louisiana#278 · 1 in 1,158
- Mississippi#316 · 1 in 1,221
Best ever in a state: #91 in Rhode Island, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #126 | 7 | 1 in 428 |
| New Hampshire | #224 | 5 | 1 in 779 |
| Massachusetts | #277 | 21 | 1 in 1,217 |
| Louisiana | #278 | 17 | 1 in 1,158 |
| Mississippi | #316 | 9 | 1 in 1,221 |
| New York | #325 | 57 | 1 in 1,632 |
| West Virginia | #338 | 5 | 1 in 1,320 |
| Oklahoma | #345 | 12 | 1 in 1,409 |
| Georgia | #388 | 27 | 1 in 1,777 |
| Kentucky | #400 | 10 | 1 in 1,835 |
| North Carolina | #417 | 23 | 1 in 1,954 |
| New Mexico | #420 | 5 | 1 in 1,489 |
| Iowa | #434 | 7 | 1 in 1,839 |
| Tennessee | #458 | 14 | 1 in 2,095 |
| Florida | #478 | 33 | 1 in 2,412 |
| Colorado | #479 | 11 | 1 in 2,078 |
| Michigan | #481 | 17 | 1 in 2,447 |
| Ohio | #522 | 18 | 1 in 2,876 |
| Washington | #548 | 12 | 1 in 2,527 |
| Maryland | #557 | 9 | 1 in 2,704 |
| Pennsylvania | #596 | 16 | 1 in 3,307 |
| Virginia | #622 | 11 | 1 in 3,241 |
| Utah | #634 | 6 | 1 in 3,027 |
| South Carolina | #644 | 6 | 1 in 2,947 |
| Indiana | #654 | 9 | 1 in 3,369 |
| Texas | #695 | 42 | 1 in 3,801 |
| New Jersey | #701 | 10 | 1 in 3,722 |
| Missouri | #719 | 7 | 1 in 3,907 |
| Alabama | #762 | 5 | 1 in 3,783 |
| Illinois | #829 | 13 | 1 in 4,678 |
| California | #924 | 37 | 1 in 5,703 |
| Arizona | #959 | 6 | 1 in 5,263 |
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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 Skyla
- 135 spots since 2024 (#848 → #983)
- 350 spots since 2020 (#633 → #983)
- 433 spots since 2015 (#550 → #983)
- Biggest jump: 439 spots in 1998 (#1,281 → #842)
- Biggest drop: 135 spots in 2025 (#848 → #983)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2012 at #504 (605 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,911 girls born in 2012 were named Skyla (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,254 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Skyla (5,613) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #4,625 (1959) | #4,625 |
| 1960s | 46 | #4,272 (1963) | #5,780 |
| 1970s | 99 | #3,777 (1979) | #5,339 |
| 1980s | 281 | #2,250 (1989) | #3,395 |
| 1990s | 1,415 | #741 (1999) | #1,359 |
| 2000s | 4,651 | #537 (2009) | #603 |
| 2010s | 5,613 | #504 (2012) | #543 |
| 2020s | 2,231 | #629 (2021) | #777 |
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.
Skyla in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 3,373 of them was named Skyla, which outranked 97.2% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).