Schuyler

Where Schuyler comes from

A Dutch surname (cf. scholier) from German Schüler (“scholar, student”); brought to America by seventeenth-century Dutch immigrants. Doublet of scholar and schooler.
— Wiktionary's entry for Schuyler
  • Dutch
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1823
    Schuyler Colfax born
    Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1982
    Schuyler Fisk born
    American actress, singer and songwriter
  4. 1982
    Peak, #845
    110 babies named Schuyler — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,542.
  6. 2024
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname [in turn from Dutch], of 19th century and later usage.
Namesakes
  • Schuyler Colfax · Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, 1823–1885
  • Schuyler Fisk · American actress, singer and songwriter, born 1982
  • Schuyler Enck · athletics competitor, 1900–1970
  • Schuyler Carron · bobsledder, 1921–1964
  • Schuyler Wheeler · American inventor of the two-blade electric fan, 1860–1923

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.