Meaning not yet researched.
Skip: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #756 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #756 in 1960; #6,747 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Skip in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,747 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #756.
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Skip: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #756 in 1960 · most boys in one year: 105 (1960).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Skip, making it the 6,747th most common boys’ name of the year, up 31 places from #6,778 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 13 boys named Skip in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #756, reached in 1960. That year also had the most boys given the name: 105. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,084 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skip in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 2,116 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 667 babies named Skip.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US boys were named Skip; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kip (8,722 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skipp 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: Skipp (6).
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 Skip in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,747 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,778 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,622 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,107 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,077 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,968 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,643 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,540 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,964 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,707 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #11,905 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,929 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #13,967 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,073 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,858 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,555 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,301 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,433 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,068 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,116 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,413 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,972 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,417 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,573 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,081 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,811 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,054 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,806 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,957 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #2,039 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,265 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,770 |
| 1976 | — | — | 22 | #2,165 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,876 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,690 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,975 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,641 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,777 |
| 1970 | — | — | 29 | #1,610 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,672 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,388 |
| 1967 | — | — | 37 | #1,249 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,395 |
| 1965 | — | — | 46 | #1,103 |
| 1964 | — | — | 53 | #1,043 |
| 1963 | — | — | 54 | #1,036 |
| 1962 | — | — | 67 | #929 |
| 1961 | — | — | 68 | #932 |
| 1960 | — | — | 105 | #756 |
| 1959 | — | — | 83 | #836 |
| 1958 | — | — | 93 | #776 |
| 1957 | — | — | 66 | #935 |
| 1956 | — | — | 67 | #914 |
| 1955 | — | — | 71 | #883 |
| 1954 | — | — | 53 | #1,037 |
| 1953 | — | — | 63 | #907 |
| 1952 | — | — | 56 | #963 |
| 1951 | — | — | 72 | #831 |
| 1950 | — | — | 43 | #1,084 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #984 |
| 1948 | — | — | 46 | #1,046 |
| 1947 | — | — | 58 | #922 |
| 1946 | — | — | 34 | #1,212 |
| 1945 | — | — | 28 | #1,266 |
| 1944 | — | — | 25 | #1,363 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,687 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,136 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,986 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,834 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,441 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,491 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,140 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,334 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,474 |
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).