Meaning not yet researched.
Skylynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 136 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,228 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,228 in 2018; #1,557 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Skylynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,557 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,228.
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Skylynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 136 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,228 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 191 (2018).
In 2025, 136 US girls were named Skylynn, making it the 1,557th most common girls’ name of the year, up 159 places from #1,716 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 119 girls named Skylynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,228, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 191. For comparison, it was #1,286 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Skylynn in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 3,339 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,558 babies named Skylynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,540 US girls were named Skylynn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 191. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Skylynn ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #718 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Skylyn (1,172 babies since 1880) and Skylin (1,000 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skylan, Skylen and Skyelynn 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: Skylan (791), Skylen (403), Skyelynn (356), Skilynn (247), Skylynne (140), Skylinn (137), Skylene (117), Skyelyn (116), Skyleen (97), Skilyn (73), Skylon (34), Skylann (11), 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 Skylynn 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 9 | #718 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #952 | #894 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,024 | #1,057 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,062 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,215 | #866 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,224 | #1,050 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,347 | #1,351 |
| New York | 7 | #1,808 | #1,129 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,122 | #1,343 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2022 | 147 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2015 | 189 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,294 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,396 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,063 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,468 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,347 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,599 | — | — |
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).