Skylar
#167 for girls in 2025, 1,818 births · #1,529 for boys in 2025, 113 births
Given to girls 82.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 5,295 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 11 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 87,442since 1974
Skylar 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 | #167 | 1,818 | #1,529 | 113 |
| 2024 | #134 | 2,195 | #1,551 | 113 |
| 2023 | #107 | 2,538 | #1,283 | 150 |
| 2022 | #87 | 2,894 | #1,237 | 159 |
| 2021 | #74 | 3,346 | #1,240 | 154 |
| 2020 | #64 | 3,645 | #1,189 | 162 |
| 2019 | #56 | 4,054 | #991 | 213 |
| 2018 | #49 | 4,411 | #920 | 233 |
| 2017 | #48 | 4,736 | #807 | 282 |
| 2016 | #42 | 5,137 | #757 | 321 |
| 2015 | #42 | 5,295 | #703 | 358 |
| 2014 | #48 | 4,779 | #633 | 414 |
| 2013 | #73 | 3,790 | #543 | 490 |
| 2012 | #87 | 3,349 | #565 | 457 |
| 2011 | #145 | 2,162 | #526 | 481 |
| 2010 | #180 | 1,723 | #525 | 493 |
| 2009 | #184 | 1,776 | #498 | 547 |
| 2008 | #192 | 1,750 | #512 | 532 |
| 2007 | #171 | 2,060 | #476 | 564 |
| 2006 | #145 | 2,352 | #434 | 632 |
| 2005 | #154 | 2,241 | #453 | 563 |
| 2004 | #154 | 2,176 | #469 | 537 |
| 2003 | #144 | 2,305 | #408 | 632 |
| 2002 | #141 | 2,391 | #382 | 680 |
| 2001 | #141 | 2,344 | #361 | 734 |
| 2000 | #135 | 2,503 | #356 | 748 |
| 1999 | #131 | 2,513 | #373 | 695 |
| 1998 | #173 | 1,731 | #358 | 730 |
| 1997 | #302 | 953 | #372 | 657 |
| 1996 | #328 | 855 | #372 | 636 |
| 1995 | #386 | 685 | #407 | 561 |
| 1994 | #403 | 621 | #398 | 585 |
| 1993 | #456 | 547 | #403 | 574 |
| 1992 | #566 | 413 | #462 | 469 |
| 1991 | #619 | 364 | #486 | 415 |
| 1990 | #560 | 419 | #466 | 448 |
| 1989 | #1,239 | 128 | #563 | 296 |
| 1988 | #1,255 | 117 | #624 | 229 |
| 1987 | #1,302 | 106 | #581 | 245 |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | #694 | 171 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 | #670 | 175 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #721 | 146 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #895 | 96 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #876 | 103 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #954 | 89 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #2,058 | 26 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #1,633 | 35 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Skylar! It came in at #7,680, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Skylar is popular in 1979
No state had 5 or more girls named Skylar in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Skylar
- 33 spots since 2024 (#134 → #167)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#64 → #167)
- 125 spots since 2015 (#42 → #167)
- Biggest jump: 679 spots in 1990 (#1,239 → #560)
- Biggest drop: 59 spots in 1991 (#560 → #619)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2015 at #42 (5,295 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 11 yrs · run 2012–2022
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 337 girls born in 2015 were named Skylar (0.30%)
- Latest: 1 in 884 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
- 45.1% of all girls named Skylar (39,436) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 55 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,340 |
| 1980s | 516 | #1,239 (1989) | #3,300 |
| 1990s | 9,101 | #131 (1999) | #392 |
| 2000s | 21,898 | #135 (2000) | #156 |
| 2010s | 39,436 | #42 (2015) | #77 |
| 2020s | 16,436 | #64 (2020) | #106 |
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.
Skylar in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 123,482 of them was named Skylar, which outranked 57.5% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,842Waleska14
- #4,842Yolande14
- #4,842Zelma14
- #5,092Skylar13
- #5,092Aaryn13
- #5,092Adreana13
- #5,092Akeela13
- #5,427Abagail12
- #5,427Abigayle12
- #5,427Adora12
Tied with 334 names at #5,092; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 49,187 of them was named Skylar, which outranked 76.9% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,598Willy36
- #1,598Wilmer36
- #1,598Zach36
- #1,633Skylar35
- #1,633Amado35
- #1,633Artemio35
- #1,633Braulio35
- #1,670Alessandro34
- #1,670Amar34
- #1,670Anthoney34
Tied with 36 names at #1,633; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.