Skye — #479 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Skye

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,684 babies named Skye between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Skye currently holds the #479 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 887 babies received it in a single year. Skye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,844 additional births since 1957.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Skye performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,449 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Skye shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,777 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Skye in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Skye 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 23,684 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.