Meaning not yet researched.
Skye: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 569 in 2025. Its best rank was #368 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #368 in 2014; #532 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Skye in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#532 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #368.
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Skye: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 569 girls in 2025. Peak: #368 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 887 (2014).
In 2025, 569 US girls were named Skye, making it the 532nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 52 places from #480 in 2024. That is 75 fewer than the 644 girls named Skye in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #368, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 887. For comparison, it was #384 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Skye, making it the 2,357th most common boys’ name of the year, down 72 places from #2,285 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 63 boys named Skye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,300, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skye in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 6 babies. In all, 27,165 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,058 babies named Skye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,111 US girls were named Skye; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 797. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,825 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Skye ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #113 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) and Skyy (1,989 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skie, Skya and Ski 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: Skie (306), Skya (153), Ski (129), Skii (110), Skyah (85), Skyye (64), Skyi (55), Skky (45), Skyee (21), Zkye (5), Skyia (5).
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 Skye 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 8 | #113 | #133 |
| Indiana | 20 | #357 | #570 |
| Utah | 13 | #359 | #246 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #392 | #279 |
| Virginia | 20 | #410 | #373 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #439 | #567 |
| Washington | 16 | #447 | #332 |
| Florida | 42 | #455 | #236 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #468 | #363 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #471 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #473 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #475 | — |
| Michigan | 18 | #481 | #521 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #483 | #358 |
| California | 69 | #489 | #401 |
| Kansas | 7 | #492 | #252 |
| New York | 34 | #504 | #401 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #513 | #328 |
| Maryland | 10 | #544 | #292 |
| Arizona | 13 | #544 | #386 |
| Georgia | 19 | #578 | #335 |
| Nevada | 5 | #594 | #528 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #615 | #567 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #617 | #282 |
| Alabama | 8 | #626 | #328 |
| Missouri | 9 | #632 | #356 |
| Ohio | 16 | #640 | #334 |
| Texas | 48 | #648 | #490 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #654 | #549 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #657 | #345 |
| Iowa | 5 | #666 | #513 |
| Illinois | 13 | #745 | #533 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #855 | #559 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #876 | #313 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 569 | #532 | 59 | #2,357 |
| 2024 | 644 | #480 | 63 | #2,285 |
| 2023 | 687 | #447 | 69 | #2,122 |
| 2022 | 760 | #416 | 65 | #2,236 |
| 2021 | 737 | #428 | 67 | #2,152 |
| 2020 | 664 | #466 | 50 | #2,580 |
| 2019 | 753 | #419 | 58 | #2,359 |
| 2018 | 748 | #414 | 46 | #2,702 |
| 2017 | 752 | #423 | 59 | #2,264 |
| 2016 | 797 | #417 | 71 | #2,024 |
| 2015 | 856 | #384 | 59 | #2,271 |
| 2014 | 887 | #368 | 59 | #2,271 |
| 2013 | 718 | #425 | 55 | #2,328 |
| 2012 | 703 | #446 | 57 | #2,288 |
| 2011 | 624 | #476 | 56 | #2,313 |
| 2010 | 615 | #492 | 85 | #1,766 |
| 2009 | 627 | #491 | 74 | #1,938 |
| 2008 | 623 | #501 | 63 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 681 | #471 | 71 | #1,993 |
| 2006 | 740 | #431 | 63 | #2,098 |
| 2005 | 734 | #422 | 77 | #1,737 |
| 2004 | 760 | #400 | 46 | #2,448 |
| 2003 | 727 | #415 | 66 | #1,813 |
| 2002 | 648 | #446 | 50 | #2,147 |
| 2001 | 602 | #461 | 56 | #1,951 |
| 2000 | 566 | #480 | 86 | #1,447 |
| 1999 | 507 | #510 | 69 | #1,591 |
| 1998 | 516 | #493 | 74 | #1,501 |
| 1997 | 557 | #454 | 82 | #1,363 |
| 1996 | 396 | #580 | 85 | #1,300 |
| 1995 | 349 | #628 | 77 | #1,349 |
| 1994 | 308 | #684 | 58 | #1,603 |
| 1993 | 313 | #693 | 51 | #1,718 |
| 1992 | 295 | #725 | 53 | #1,656 |
| 1991 | 303 | #703 | 43 | #1,863 |
| 1990 | 308 | #689 | 51 | #1,634 |
| 1989 | 241 | #793 | 43 | #1,790 |
| 1988 | 240 | #787 | 44 | #1,640 |
| 1987 | 240 | #749 | 45 | #1,584 |
| 1986 | 116 | #1,208 | 42 | #1,582 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,331 | 24 | #2,286 |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,360 | 27 | #2,028 |
| 1983 | 108 | #1,199 | 39 | #1,561 |
| 1982 | 110 | #1,219 | 45 | #1,439 |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,338 | 50 | #1,329 |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,266 | 38 | #1,589 |
| 1979 | 112 | #1,183 | 49 | #1,338 |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,486 | 24 | #2,062 |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,323 | 26 | #1,941 |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,351 | 26 | #1,926 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,476 | 26 | #1,877 |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,425 | 21 | #2,117 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,009 | 27 | #1,729 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,886 | 17 | #2,314 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,239 | 5 | #5,552 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,225 | 5 | #5,341 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,388 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,462 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,381 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,926 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,235 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,399 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,896 | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,487 | — | — |
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).