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Sky: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 272 in 2025. Its best rank was #712 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #712 in 2021; #949 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Sky in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#949 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #712.
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Sky: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 272 girls in 2025. Peak: #712 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 405 (2021).
In 2025, 272 US girls were named Sky, making it the 949th most common girls’ name of the year, down 123 places from #826 in 2024. That is 61 fewer than the 333 girls named Sky in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #712, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 405. For comparison, it was #774 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 101 US boys were named Sky, making it the 1,661st most common boys’ name of the year, up 22 places from #1,683 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 100 boys named Sky in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,039, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 124, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,802 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sky in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 7 babies. In all, 13,948 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,171 babies named Sky.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,456 US girls were named Sky; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 405. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sky ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #534 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Skylar (105,716 babies since 1880), Skyler (69,539 babies since 1880), Skye (27,165 babies since 1880) and Skyla (14,344 babies since 1880).
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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.
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 Sky 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #534 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #536 | — |
| Georgia | 19 | #577 | #724 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #670 | #483 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #690 | — |
| Florida | 25 | #690 | #488 |
| California | 44 | #714 | #740 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #838 | #704 |
| New York | 19 | #852 | #639 |
| Illinois | 10 | #918 | #1,431 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,023 | #833 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,024 | #514 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,032 | #923 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,049 | #976 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,065 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,112 | #1,226 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,377 | #625 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,395 | #581 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 272 | #949 | 101 | #1,661 |
| 2024 | 333 | #826 | 100 | #1,683 |
| 2023 | 360 | #786 | 105 | #1,648 |
| 2022 | 396 | #737 | 114 | #1,564 |
| 2021 | 405 | #712 | 100 | #1,665 |
| 2020 | 337 | #806 | 96 | #1,670 |
| 2019 | 337 | #810 | 92 | #1,722 |
| 2018 | 315 | #863 | 88 | #1,758 |
| 2017 | 335 | #817 | 91 | #1,724 |
| 2016 | 366 | #776 | 86 | #1,783 |
| 2015 | 367 | #774 | 84 | #1,802 |
| 2014 | 386 | #726 | 124 | #1,383 |
| 2013 | 296 | #873 | 96 | #1,612 |
| 2012 | 314 | #851 | 97 | #1,614 |
| 2011 | 264 | #974 | 77 | #1,846 |
| 2010 | 252 | #999 | 104 | #1,549 |
| 2009 | 253 | #1,031 | 94 | #1,685 |
| 2008 | 266 | #997 | 83 | #1,800 |
| 2007 | 272 | #987 | 87 | #1,726 |
| 2006 | 251 | #1,023 | 86 | #1,664 |
| 2005 | 262 | #946 | 91 | #1,550 |
| 2004 | 226 | #1,033 | 87 | #1,541 |
| 2003 | 273 | #884 | 91 | #1,449 |
| 2002 | 252 | #893 | 83 | #1,513 |
| 2001 | 222 | #972 | 86 | #1,449 |
| 2000 | 214 | #993 | 75 | #1,583 |
| 1999 | 215 | #965 | 76 | #1,501 |
| 1998 | 188 | #1,049 | 64 | #1,637 |
| 1997 | 177 | #1,072 | 79 | #1,396 |
| 1996 | 160 | #1,138 | 86 | #1,289 |
| 1995 | 128 | #1,305 | 74 | #1,378 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,453 | 73 | #1,369 |
| 1993 | 100 | #1,564 | 63 | #1,492 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,684 | 50 | #1,728 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,853 | 50 | #1,672 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,631 | 55 | #1,546 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,907 | 53 | #1,546 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,888 | 50 | #1,512 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,988 | 46 | #1,554 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,421 | 57 | #1,294 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,322 | 49 | #1,411 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,857 | 48 | #1,381 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,225 | 64 | #1,126 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,010 | 64 | #1,146 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,232 | 53 | #1,267 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,989 | 53 | #1,290 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,424 | 60 | #1,175 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,464 | 71 | #1,039 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,986 | 57 | #1,175 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,269 | 42 | #1,389 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,952 | 61 | #1,080 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,013 | 48 | #1,214 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,549 | 25 | #1,812 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,519 | 29 | #1,642 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,185 | 24 | #1,857 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,859 | 19 | #2,113 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,836 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,076 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,915 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,530 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,989 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,657 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,006 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,523 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,516 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,901 | 11 | #2,624 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,805 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,249 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,324 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,391 |
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).