Skylar
Skylar is ranked 134th among girls in 2024 (2,186 births). Its best rank was 42nd, in 2015–2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #134down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,1860.14% of girls
- Peak year
- 20155,294 births
- Best rank
- #42first in 2015
- Since 1974
- 103,743people given the name
The story in the numbers
85,585 girls have been named Skylar in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5,294 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 48 → 134).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 46%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.
Skylar is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (18,158), most of them born around 2000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Skylar was the 42nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Skylar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harleighpeak 2017
- Harleepeak 2017
- Lexingtonpeak 2014
- Aislynnpeak 2015
- Skylynpeak 2014
- Felicitypeak 2017
- Amiapeak 2014
- Kennedypeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.