Skyelar
Skyelar was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,936 among girls’ names; 871 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skyelar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skyelar?
#16,936 among girls’ names, 2025
Skyelar fell from #4,967 in 2015 to #16,936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 3.1 per million.
50 babies in 2000, the peak
Skyelar peaked in 2000, when 50 babies were given it (39 girls, #3,446 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,936 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,546 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,280 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,584 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,396 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,456 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,668 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,292 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,056 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,112 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,967 | 5 | #13,755 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,968 | 5 | #13,770 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,987 | 8 | #9,527 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,869 | 9 | #8,766 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,899 | 13 | #6,525 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,466 | 6 | #11,978 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,406 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,535 | 6 | #12,331 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,357 | 7 | #10,729 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,932 | 6 | #11,842 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,940 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,928 | 9 | #8,058 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,512 | 9 | #7,734 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,965 | 15 | #5,093 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,546 | 6 | #10,362 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,446 | 11 | #6,241 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,554 | 8 | #7,763 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,473 | 7 | #8,319 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,127 | 10 | #6,019 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,343 | 9 | #6,408 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,388 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,056 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,976 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,987 | 7 | #7,284 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,338 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,735 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,046 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Skyelar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 871 Americans recorded as Skyelar, 82% are girls and 18% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Skyelar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skyelar, and how old are they?
An estimated 860 Americans named Skyelar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 750 people named Skyelar (575 women and girls, 175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 800 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 107,669 babies since 1880, Skyelar is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,945 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Skyelar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Karrington | 1,734 | |
| Kaylen | 8,504 |
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 Skyelar and names like it
- Compare Skyelar and SkylarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSkyelar peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skyelar since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Skyelar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Skyelar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.