Skylah

#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births

Peak · girls
2018 · 177 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,917
since 1991

Skylah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Skylah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #1,288, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#2,29879
2024#2,88957
2023#1,826110
2022#1,684124
2021#1,680123
2020#1,743115
2019#1,366165
2018#1,288177
2017#1,451155
2016#1,330178
2015#1,372172
2014#1,391165
2013#1,457153
2012#1,539143
2011#1,646130
2010#1,639130
2009#1,989104
2008#2,23488
2007#2,85863
2006#3,01756
2005#2,63664
2004#2,65262
2003#2,67359
2002#2,93550
2001#2,88150
2000#3,45338
1999#2,99144
1998#6,36015
1997#5,22819
1996#8,13210
1995#9,5538
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five girls were named Skylah! It came in at #11,509, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1992–1994, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Skylah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 591 spots since 2024 (#2,889#2,298)
  • 555 spots since 2020 (#1,743#2,298)
  • 926 spots since 2015 (#1,372#2,298)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,288 (177 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,611
  • Highest: 1 in 9,611 girls born in 2018 were named Skylah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 53.8% of all girls named Skylah (1,568) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s107#2,991 (1999)#8,174
2000s634#1,989 (2009)#2,733
2010s1,568#1,288 (2018)#1,448
2020s608#1,680 (2021)#2,020

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.

Skylah in 1991

girls
#11,509
6 births · 1 in 312,501 girls

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #11,509Skylah6
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 312,501 of them was named Skylah, which outranked 25.6% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Skylah
  1. #10,271Zanna7
  2. #10,271Zonia7
  3. #10,271Zykia7
  4. #11,509Skylah6
  5. #11,509Aamber6
  6. #11,509Abagael6
  7. #11,509Abbagail6
  8. #13,147Aaminah5
  9. #13,147Abegail5
  10. #13,147Abraham5

Tied with 1,637 names at #11,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 1,600Rebeccah#2,600#1,000
  2. 1,221Ieshia#1,938#717
  3. 1,135Miriah#2,081#946
  4. 861Alexus#1,813#952
  5. 676Chynna#1,512#836
Fallers
  1. 568Infant#432#1,000
  2. 510Lakeshia#897#1,407
  3. 466Latifah#701#1,167
  4. 432Martika#757#1,189
  5. 416Cecily#575#991

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991