Skip — #6505 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Skip

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,103 babies named Skip between 1930 and 2024, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Skip currently holds the #6505 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 105 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Skip performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 667 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Skip shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 254 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Skip in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Skip in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,103 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.