Sky — #828 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sky

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,465 babies named Sky between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sky currently holds the #828 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 405 babies received it in a single year. Sky is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,101 additional births since 1953.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sky performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,230 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sky shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,390 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sky in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sky 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 9,465 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.