Skye
#529 for girls in 2025, 569 births · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to girls 89.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 887 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 24,262since 1952
Skye 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 | #529 | 569 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #479 | 644 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #445 | 687 | #2,113 | 69 |
| 2022 | #414 | 760 | #2,217 | 65 |
| 2021 | #428 | 737 | #2,134 | 67 |
| 2020 | #465 | 664 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #419 | 753 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #414 | 748 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #422 | 752 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #417 | 797 | #2,012 | 71 |
| 2015 | #384 | 856 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #367 | 887 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #424 | 718 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #446 | 703 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 2011 | #475 | 624 | #2,284 | 56 |
| 2010 | #492 | 615 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2009 | #490 | 627 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #501 | 623 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #471 | 681 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #431 | 740 | #2,082 | 63 |
| 2005 | #422 | 734 | #1,725 | 77 |
| 2004 | #400 | 760 | #2,419 | 46 |
| 2003 | #414 | 727 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | #446 | 648 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #461 | 602 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #480 | 566 | #1,429 | 86 |
| 1999 | #509 | 507 | #1,580 | 69 |
| 1998 | #491 | 516 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #454 | 557 | #1,350 | 82 |
| 1996 | #580 | 396 | #1,292 | 85 |
| 1995 | #628 | 349 | #1,338 | 77 |
| 1994 | #682 | 308 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #690 | 313 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #724 | 295 | #1,643 | 53 |
| 1991 | #702 | 303 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #688 | 308 | #1,615 | 51 |
| 1989 | #789 | 241 | #1,766 | 43 |
| 1988 | #784 | 240 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #748 | 240 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #1,203 | 116 | #1,565 | 42 |
| 1985 | #1,323 | 100 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #1,355 | 88 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #1,194 | 108 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #1,213 | 110 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,328 | 94 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #1,178 | 112 | #1,319 | 49 |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 | #2,012 | 24 |
| 1977 | #1,315 | 88 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #1,343 | 80 | #1,873 | 26 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #1,414 | 72 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #2,212 | 36 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,005 | 29 | — | |
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| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Skye! It came in at #4,908, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Skye
- 50 spots since 2024 (#479 → #529)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#465 → #529)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#384 → #529)
- Biggest jump: 455 spots in 1987 (#1,203 → #748)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2025 (#479 → #529)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 2014 at #367 (887 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,014 girls born in 2014 were named Skye (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,825 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 30.7% of all girls named Skye (7,453) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 57 | #2,005 (1956) | #3,589 |
| 1960s | 56 | #4,539 (1963) | #5,573 |
| 1970s | 635 | #1,178 (1979) | #1,827 |
| 1980s | 1,440 | #748 (1987) | #1,120 |
| 1990s | 3,852 | #454 (1997) | #615 |
| 2000s | 6,708 | #400 (2004) | #452 |
| 2010s | 7,453 | #367 (2014) | #426 |
| 2020s | 4,061 | #414 (2022) | #460 |
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.
Skye in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 14,789 of them was named Skye, which outranked 90.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,199Kindra117
- #1,199Marguerite117
- #1,199Tashina117
- #1,203Skye116
- #1,203Brittnee116
- #1,203Elsie116
- #1,203Lawanda116
- #1,210Ashlei115
- #1,210Dulce115
- #1,210Greta115
Tied with 6 names at #1,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 43,846 of them was named Skye, which outranked 80.0% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,535Weldon43
- #1,535Wiley43
- #1,535Williams43
- #1,565Skye42
- #1,565Aj42
- #1,565Caesar42
- #1,565Cheyne42
- #1,588Anthoney41
- #1,588Antuan41
- #1,588Apollo41
Tied with 22 names at #1,565; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.