Skyler
#670 for girls in 2025, 422 births · #783 for boys in 2025, 325 births
Given to boys 60.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 1,355 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 41,841since 1954
Skyler 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #670 | 422 | #783 | 325 |
| 2024 | #659 | 445 | #759 | 335 |
| 2023 | #623 | 479 | #727 | 366 |
| 2022 | #541 | 570 | #670 | 407 |
| 2021 | #552 | 554 | #686 | 387 |
| 2020 | #463 | 667 | #568 | 493 |
| 2019 | #439 | 715 | #505 | 567 |
| 2018 | #400 | 770 | #486 | 603 |
| 2017 | #382 | 817 | #463 | 656 |
| 2016 | #358 | 915 | #414 | 771 |
| 2015 | #283 | 1,126 | #360 | 914 |
| 2014 | #300 | 1,084 | #351 | 924 |
| 2013 | #362 | 874 | #306 | 1,125 |
| 2012 | #372 | 839 | #288 | 1,230 |
| 2011 | #456 | 656 | #288 | 1,223 |
| 2010 | #473 | 639 | #262 | 1,320 |
| 2009 | #421 | 760 | #260 | 1,336 |
| 2008 | #423 | 765 | #264 | 1,312 |
| 2007 | #375 | 875 | #271 | 1,266 |
| 2006 | #316 | 1,037 | #270 | 1,281 |
| 2005 | #315 | 1,019 | #240 | 1,403 |
| 2004 | #310 | 1,033 | #234 | 1,424 |
| 2003 | #276 | 1,132 | #231 | 1,486 |
| 2002 | #270 | 1,162 | #222 | 1,558 |
| 2001 | #276 | 1,147 | #229 | 1,508 |
| 2000 | #250 | 1,284 | #230 | 1,472 |
| 1999 | #256 | 1,219 | #231 | 1,427 |
| 1998 | #295 | 1,022 | #230 | 1,384 |
| 1997 | #413 | 634 | #220 | 1,387 |
| 1996 | #468 | 536 | #217 | 1,392 |
| 1995 | #537 | 441 | #223 | 1,335 |
| 1994 | #590 | 382 | #213 | 1,355 |
| 1993 | #584 | 402 | #242 | 1,191 |
| 1992 | #688 | 314 | #258 | 1,097 |
| 1991 | #880 | 224 | #294 | 881 |
| 1990 | #736 | 283 | #301 | 847 |
| 1989 | #1,564 | 90 | #341 | 676 |
| 1988 | #1,541 | 86 | #367 | 551 |
| 1987 | #1,424 | 92 | #409 | 454 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 | #414 | 423 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #431 | 393 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 | #472 | 319 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #537 | 244 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #603 | 201 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #642 | 175 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #1,019 | 79 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #1,241 | 55 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,240 | 52 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #1,607 | 34 |
| 1976 | — | #2,054 | 23 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | — | #2,050 | 21 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Skyler! It came in at #3,452, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Skyler is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#142 · 1 in 818
- Utah#159 · 1 in 1,001
- Oregon#318 · 1 in 3,345
- Colorado#374 · 1 in 3,973
- Oklahoma#378 · 1 in 3,925
Best ever in a state: #42 in Utah, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #142 | 10 | 1 in 818 |
| Utah | #159 | 19 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Oregon | #318 | 6 | 1 in 3,345 |
| Colorado | #374 | 6 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Oklahoma | #378 | 6 | 1 in 3,925 |
| Washington | #427 | 6 | 1 in 5,294 |
| California | #468 | 38 | 1 in 5,286 |
| New York | #881 | 7 | 1 in 16,220 |
| Texas | #899 | 9 | 1 in 15,304 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Skyler
- 24 spots since 2024 (#759 → #783)
- 215 spots since 2020 (#568 → #783)
- 423 spots since 2015 (#360 → #783)
- Biggest jump: 377 spots in 1981 (#1,019 → #642)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2021 (#568 → #686)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1994 at #213 (1,355 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1981–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,246 boys born in 2002 were named Skyler (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,256 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #213 in 1994, was only 1 in 1,426 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.6% of all boys named Skyler (14,046) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 31 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,549 |
| 1960s | 58 | #2,310 (1964) | #3,403 |
| 1970s | 249 | #1,240 (1978) | #2,340 |
| 1980s | 3,515 | #341 (1989) | #524 |
| 1990s | 12,296 | #213 (1994) | #243 |
| 2000s | 14,046 | #222 (2002) | #245 |
| 2010s | 9,333 | #262 (2010) | #372 |
| 2020s | 2,313 | #568 (2020) | #699 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Skyler in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 104,254 of them was named Skyler, which outranked 62.8% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,344Wynette17
- #4,344Yahira17
- #4,344Youlanda17
- #4,532Skyler16
- #4,532Adriel16
- #4,532Alicen16
- #4,532Alona16
- #4,746Aaryn15
- #4,746Adell15
- #4,746Adella15
Tied with 213 names at #4,532; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 10,235 of them was named Skyler, which outranked 91.2% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).