Skip
Skip was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,743 among boys’ names; 2,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Skip and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 49 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skip by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Skip mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Skip is “a male given name from Old Norse.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Skip?
#6,743 among boys’ names, 2025
Skip entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,743 in 2025.
105 babies in 1960, the peak
Skip peaked in 1960, when 105 boys were given it, #755 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,743 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,773 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,617 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,102 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,072 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,963 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,638 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,534 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,958 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,702 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #11,899 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,922 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,960 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,065 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,851 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,549 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,294 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,426 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,061 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,109 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,408 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,965 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,414 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,570 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,079 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,810 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,053 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,805 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,957 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,039 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,265 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,770 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,164 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,875 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,690 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,974 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,641 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,776 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,609 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,671 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,388 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,248 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,394 | 17.4 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,103 | 24.7 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,043 | 26.6 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,035 | 26.6 |
| 1962 | 67 | #928 | 32.4 |
| 1961 | 68 | #931 | 32.0 |
| 1960 | 105 | #755 | 49.2 |
| 1959 | 83 | #835 | 38.9 |
| 1958 | 93 | #775 | 43.8 |
| 1957 | 66 | #934 | 30.6 |
| 1956 | 67 | #913 | 31.7 |
| 1955 | 71 | #882 | 34.5 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,036 | 26.0 |
| 1953 | 63 | #906 | 31.9 |
| 1952 | 56 | #962 | 28.8 |
| 1951 | 72 | #830 | 38.2 |
| 1950 | 43 | #1,083 | 24.0 |
| 1949 | 51 | #983 | 28.7 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,045 | 26.2 |
| 1947 | 58 | #921 | 31.7 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,211 | 20.9 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,265 | 20.8 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,362 | 18.3 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,686 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,135 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,986 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,834 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,440 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,490 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,140 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,082 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,333 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,472 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Skip a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skip has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skip: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skip, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 2,116 Americans ever recorded as Skip. The median Skip alive today is 63 years old; half are between 49 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 2,047 people named Skip (70 women and girls, 1,977 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 46 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 811 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 404 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 103 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Skip born?
The states with the most babies named Skip are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 254 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Skip is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skip is most over-represented in California: since 1930 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Skip with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Skip
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Skip and names like it
- Compare Skip and MichielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSkip peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skip since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Skip.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Skip alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.