Skyla
Skyla was given to 257 girls in 2025, #986 among girls’ names; 14,344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,200 Americans named Skyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Skyla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Skyla is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century invention, shortened from Skyler.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Skyla?
#986 among girls’ names, 2025
Skyla fell from #551 in 2015 to #986 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.32 to 0.16 per 1,000.
605 babies in 2012, the peak
Skyla peaked in 2012, when 605 girls were given it, #504 among girls’ names. The 257 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 257 | #986 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 319 | #850 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 346 | #809 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 380 | #759 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 471 | #629 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 458 | #633 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 531 | #575 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 560 | #555 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 553 | #558 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 570 | #548 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 564 | #551 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 583 | #535 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 552 | #539 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 605 | #504 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 568 | #517 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 527 | #555 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 561 | #538 | 0.31 |
| 2008 | 523 | #597 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 474 | #629 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 487 | #597 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 508 | #566 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 481 | #587 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 429 | #626 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 418 | #613 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 406 | #620 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 364 | #666 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 302 | #743 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 253 | #844 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 137 | #1,285 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,354 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,406 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,708 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 98 | #1,573 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,402 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,269 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,525 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,845 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,540 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,434 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,314 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,317 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,510 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,427 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,402 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,916 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,753 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,497 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,434 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,975 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Skyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skyla, and how old are they?
14,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,344 Americans ever recorded as Skyla. The median Skyla alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 9,931 people named Skyla (9,889 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 131 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 959 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,110 |
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 Skyla born?
The states with the most babies named Skyla are California, Florida and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,083 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | #765 | 1.3× |
| New York | 19 | #853 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,400 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 13 | #739 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #773 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #906 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #1,000 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 9 | #851 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 9 | #591 | 0.6× |
Where Skyla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skyla is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1959 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 Skyla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 20,916 babies since 1880, Skyla is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 257 of their 416 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Skyla
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 Skyla and names like it
- Compare Skyla and SkylahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSkyla peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skyla since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Skyla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Skyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Skyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.