Meaning not yet researched.
Skylar: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,818 in 2025. Its best rank was #42 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #42 in 2016; #167 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Skylar in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#167 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #42.
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Skylar: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,818 girls in 2025. Peak: #42 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 5,295 (2015).
In 2025, 1,818 US girls were named Skylar, making it the 167th most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #134 in 2024. That is 377 fewer than the 2,195 girls named Skylar in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #42, reached in 2016. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,295, in 2015. For comparison, it was #42 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Skylar, making it the 1,537th most common boys’ name of the year, up 17 places from #1,554 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 113 boys named Skylar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #356, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 748. For comparison, it was #704 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skylar in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 10 babies. In all, 105,716 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 43,178 babies named Skylar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 34,774 US girls were named Skylar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5,137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 884 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Skylar ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #76 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Skyler (69,539 babies since 1880), Skyla (14,344 babies since 1880), Sky (13,948 babies since 1880) and Schuyler (5,480 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skyelar, Skilar and Skiler are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Skyelar (871), Skilar (465), Skiler (334), Skyeler (237), Skyllar (220), Skylur (134), Skylier (111), Skylarr (88), Skyylar (72), Skylyr (37), Skyller (32), Skylaar (22), and more.
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 Skylar 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 28 | #76 | #13 |
| Maryland | 48 | #87 | #13 |
| Georgia | 95 | #88 | #12 |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #93 | #94 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #97 | #49 |
| New Jersey | 71 | #105 | #37 |
| Alabama | 43 | #105 | #9 |
| North Carolina | 89 | #112 | #17 |
| Virginia | 60 | #124 | #27 |
| Illinois | 75 | #125 | #48 |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #133 | #47 |
| Delaware | 7 | #138 | #30 |
| Louisiana | 31 | #138 | #25 |
| Tennessee | 54 | #138 | #30 |
| Florida | 122 | #145 | #31 |
| Wisconsin | 36 | #147 | #58 |
| New York | 107 | #151 | #38 |
| South Carolina | 30 | #161 | #9 |
| Connecticut | 20 | #161 | #33 |
| Michigan | 52 | #166 | #24 |
| Ohio | 65 | #173 | #40 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #175 | #64 |
| Colorado | 34 | #178 | #86 |
| Indiana | 37 | #190 | #65 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #192 | #40 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #192 | #215 |
| Minnesota | 28 | #201 | #109 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #206 | #84 |
| Washington | 35 | #209 | #153 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #222 | #82 |
| Texas | 155 | #223 | #60 |
| Iowa | 16 | #225 | #90 |
| Missouri | 28 | #227 | #36 |
| Arizona | 31 | #228 | #115 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #248 | #29 |
| Montana | 5 | #253 | — |
| California | 131 | #256 | #127 |
| Oregon | 14 | #270 | #182 |
| Utah | 16 | #286 | #152 |
| Nevada | 10 | #288 | #130 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #293 | #105 |
| Kansas | 8 | #441 | #79 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,818 | #167 | 113 | #1,537 |
| 2024 | 2,195 | #134 | 113 | #1,554 |
| 2023 | 2,538 | #107 | 150 | #1,285 |
| 2022 | 2,894 | #87 | 159 | #1,243 |
| 2021 | 3,346 | #74 | 154 | #1,243 |
| 2020 | 3,645 | #64 | 162 | #1,193 |
| 2019 | 4,054 | #56 | 213 | #992 |
| 2018 | 4,411 | #49 | 233 | #920 |
| 2017 | 4,736 | #48 | 282 | #808 |
| 2016 | 5,137 | #42 | 321 | #759 |
| 2015 | 5,295 | #42 | 358 | #704 |
| 2014 | 4,779 | #48 | 414 | #635 |
| 2013 | 3,790 | #73 | 490 | #543 |
| 2012 | 3,349 | #87 | 457 | #567 |
| 2011 | 2,162 | #145 | 481 | #527 |
| 2010 | 1,723 | #180 | 493 | #525 |
| 2009 | 1,776 | #184 | 547 | #498 |
| 2008 | 1,750 | #192 | 532 | #512 |
| 2007 | 2,060 | #171 | 564 | #477 |
| 2006 | 2,352 | #145 | 632 | #435 |
| 2005 | 2,241 | #154 | 563 | #453 |
| 2004 | 2,176 | #154 | 537 | #470 |
| 2003 | 2,305 | #144 | 632 | #408 |
| 2002 | 2,391 | #141 | 680 | #383 |
| 2001 | 2,344 | #141 | 734 | #361 |
| 2000 | 2,503 | #135 | 748 | #356 |
| 1999 | 2,513 | #131 | 695 | #374 |
| 1998 | 1,731 | #173 | 730 | #358 |
| 1997 | 953 | #302 | 657 | #372 |
| 1996 | 855 | #328 | 636 | #373 |
| 1995 | 685 | #386 | 561 | #408 |
| 1994 | 621 | #403 | 585 | #398 |
| 1993 | 547 | #456 | 574 | #404 |
| 1992 | 413 | #567 | 469 | #464 |
| 1991 | 364 | #620 | 415 | #486 |
| 1990 | 419 | #561 | 448 | #466 |
| 1989 | 128 | #1,242 | 296 | #563 |
| 1988 | 117 | #1,259 | 229 | #625 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,312 | 245 | #581 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,860 | 171 | #696 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,074 | 175 | #671 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,970 | 146 | #722 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,107 | 96 | #902 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,163 | 103 | #883 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,932 | 89 | #958 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,266 | 26 | #2,104 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,373 | 35 | #1,667 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,429 | 16 | #2,780 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,839 | 20 | #2,345 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,976 | 10 | #3,683 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,049 | 10 | #3,628 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,586 | 8 | #4,140 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,657 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,791 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,658 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,507 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,457 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,551 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,275 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,879 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,797 |
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).