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

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Peak · girls
2015 · 5,295 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
11 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
87,442
since 1974

Skylar over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #42, 2015peak #356, 2000girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1671,818#1,529113
2024#1342,195#1,551113
2023#1072,538#1,283150
2022#872,894#1,237159
2021#743,346#1,240154
2020#643,645#1,189162
2019#564,054#991213
2018#494,411#920233
2017#484,736#807282
2016#425,137#757321
2015#425,295#703358
2014#484,779#633414
2013#733,790#543490
2012#873,349#565457
2011#1452,162#526481
2010#1801,723#525493
2009#1841,776#498547
2008#1921,750#512532
2007#1712,060#476564
2006#1452,352#434632
2005#1542,241#453563
2004#1542,176#469537
2003#1442,305#408632
2002#1412,391#382680
2001#1412,344#361734
2000#1352,503#356748
1999#1312,513#373695
1998#1731,731#358730
1997#302953#372657
1996#328855#372636
1995#386685#407561
1994#403621#398585
1993#456547#403574
1992#566413#462469
1991#619364#486415
1990#560419#466448
1989#1,239128#563296
1988#1,255117#624229
1987#1,302106#581245
1986#1,83861#694171
1985#3,00830#670175
1984#3,87420#721146
1983#4,88414#89596
1982#4,94514#876103
1981#4,74615#95489
1980#5,91211#2,05826
1979#5,09213#1,63335
1978#7,6497#2,66916
1977#5,53211#2,27020
1976#5,60110#3,47110
1975#6,4848#3,42810
1974#7,6806#3,8378
1973#3,4459
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1967#3,2317
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First appearance
1974

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.

See more about Skylar
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 2015 at #42 (5,295 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 11 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 11 yrs · run 2012–2022
  • Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 337
  • Highest: 1 in 337 girls born in 2015 were named Skylar (0.30%)
  • Latest: 1 in 884 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 45.1% of all girls named Skylar (39,436) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
  • Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s55#5,092 (1979)#6,340
1980s516#1,239 (1989)#3,300
1990s9,101#131 (1999)#392
2000s21,898#135 (2000)#156
2010s39,436#42 (2015)#77
2020s16,436#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 1989

girls
#1,239
128 births · 1 in 14,403 girls
boys
#563
296 births · 1 in 6,760 boys

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #1,239Skylar128

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #563Skylar296
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 14,403 of them was named Skylar, which outranked 91.5% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Skylar
  1. #1,234Dianne129
  2. #1,234Elsie129
  3. #1,234Shae129
  4. #1,239Skylar128
  5. #1,239Ellie128
  6. #1,239Kerrie128
  7. #1,239Samara128
  8. #1,244Candi127
  9. #1,244Imani127
  10. #1,244June127

Tied with 4 names at #1,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 9,523Audriana#10,386#863
  2. 7,504Martika#8,391#887
  3. 6,932Audrianna#7,691#759
  4. 3,972Elizabet#4,496#524
  5. 1,772Katherin#2,489#717
Fallers
  1. 539Diandra#905#1,444
  2. 524Taja#720#1,244
  3. 455Jonathan#999#1,454
  4. 445Katarina#960#1,405
  5. 397Caryn#816#1,213

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

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 6,760 of them was named Skylar, which outranked 93.9% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Skylar
  1. #560Aron299
  2. #561Kareem298
  3. #561Rusty298
  4. #563Skylar296
  5. #564Vicente295
  6. #565Carter294
  7. #565Herman294
Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

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

See the top 100 for 1989