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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#218 · 1 in 942
- New York#282 · 1 in 1,377
- Florida#328 · 1 in 1,593
- Nevada#338 · 1 in 1,291
- Indiana#362 · 1 in 1,581
Best ever in a state: #91 in Rhode Island, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #218 | 27 | 1 in 942 |
| New York | #282 | 67 | 1 in 1,377 |
| Florida | #328 | 50 | 1 in 1,593 |
| Nevada | #338 | 8 | 1 in 1,291 |
| Indiana | #362 | 19 | 1 in 1,581 |
| South Carolina | #372 | 11 | 1 in 1,584 |
| Ohio | #379 | 27 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Mississippi | #385 | 7 | 1 in 1,519 |
| Louisiana | #393 | 12 | 1 in 1,642 |
| Tennessee | #400 | 16 | 1 in 1,867 |
| Oklahoma | #401 | 10 | 1 in 1,648 |
| Georgia | #406 | 25 | 1 in 1,893 |
| Kentucky | #424 | 9 | 1 in 2,016 |
| Wisconsin | #425 | 12 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Kansas | #454 | 7 | 1 in 1,880 |
| Pennsylvania | #454 | 24 | 1 in 2,198 |
| Alabama | #475 | 9 | 1 in 2,052 |
| Maryland | #486 | 11 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Connecticut | #489 | 5 | 1 in 2,341 |
| Michigan | #492 | 17 | 1 in 2,422 |
| Virginia | #520 | 14 | 1 in 2,599 |
| New Jersey | #528 | 14 | 1 in 2,608 |
| Missouri | #536 | 10 | 1 in 2,692 |
| Washington | #539 | 12 | 1 in 2,538 |
| Iowa | #563 | 5 | 1 in 2,506 |
| North Carolina | #568 | 16 | 1 in 2,747 |
| Texas | #630 | 47 | 1 in 3,368 |
| Oregon | #655 | 5 | 1 in 2,969 |
| Minnesota | #746 | 6 | 1 in 4,004 |
| California | #774 | 46 | 1 in 4,545 |
| Arizona | #803 | 8 | 1 in 3,872 |
| Colorado | #878 | 5 | 1 in 4,481 |
| Illinois | #918 | 11 | 1 in 5,341 |
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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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,911 of them was named Skyla, which outranked 97.4% 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.