Meaning not yet researched.
Skai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,083 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,083 in 2021; #2,642 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Skai in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,642 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,083.
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Skai: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,083 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 92 (2021).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Skai, making it the 2,642nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 115 places from #2,527 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 71 girls named Skai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,083, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #3,022 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skai in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 1,138 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 511 babies named Skai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 721 US girls were named Skai; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Skai ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,337 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sky (13,948 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skaii and Zkai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Skaii (42), Zkai (31).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Skai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,337 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,370 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,441 | #1,175 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,642 | 7 | #10,527 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,527 | 8 | #9,741 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,225 | 8 | #9,621 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,205 | 6 | #12,112 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,083 | 11 | #7,505 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,709 | 9 | #8,629 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,750 | 5 | #13,852 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,811 | 8 | #9,562 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,424 | 6 | #11,930 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,991 | 6 | #11,904 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,073 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,308 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,362 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,421 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,691 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,661 | 5 | #13,732 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,025 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,578 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,334 | 5 | #12,495 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,013 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,953 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,183 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,486 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,172 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,214 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).