Meaning not yet researched.
Skylor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,638 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,638 in 1998. No US babies were recorded with the name Skylor in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,638 in 1998.
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Skylor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,638 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 64 (1998).
Fewer than five US boys were named Skylor in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,638, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #5,258 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Skylor in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,876, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #8,377 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skylor in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 8 babies. In all, 1,494 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 540 babies named Skylor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 66 US boys were named Skylor; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 12.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Skylar (105,716 babies since 1880) and Skyler (69,539 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Skylor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,955 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,225 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,104 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,017 | 8 | #9,572 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,190 | 8 | #9,434 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,660 | 12 | #7,113 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,805 | 9 | #8,723 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,499 | 12 | #7,038 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,748 | 12 | #7,082 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,377 | 18 | #5,258 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,008 | 21 | #4,682 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,226 | 19 | #4,950 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,163 | 25 | #4,111 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,648 | 37 | #3,100 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,162 | 25 | #4,084 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,367 | 25 | #4,144 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,424 | 26 | #4,020 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,464 | 40 | #2,968 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,663 | 38 | #2,974 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,374 | 37 | #2,892 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,728 | 34 | #3,006 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,535 | 47 | #2,303 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,422 | 35 | #2,746 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,280 | 43 | #2,340 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,876 | 45 | #2,218 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,630 | 49 | #1,990 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,331 | 64 | #1,638 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,938 | 33 | #2,497 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,738 | 26 | #2,900 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,631 | 32 | #2,437 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,709 | 34 | #2,336 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,219 | 45 | #1,869 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,574 | 36 | #2,164 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,252 | 26 | #2,674 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,956 | 24 | #2,765 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,983 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,192 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,821 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,089 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,421 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,501 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,104 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,540 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,898 |
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).