Meaning not yet researched.
Skylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,804 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,804 in 2014; #4,741 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Skylyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,741 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,804.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Skylyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,804 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 62 (2015).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Skylyn, making it the 4,741st most common girls’ name of the year, down 991 places from #3,750 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 41 girls named Skylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,804, reached in 2014. The most girls given the name in a single year was 62, in 2015. For comparison, it was #2,842 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skylyn in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 7 babies. In all, 1,172 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 513 babies named Skylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 428 US girls were named Skylyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Skylynn (3,339 babies since 1880) and Skylin (1,000 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skyelin 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: Skyelin (18).
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 Skylyn 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 | 29 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,916 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,284 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,670 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,112 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,632 | — | — |
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).