Skylah
Skylah was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,323 among girls’ names; 2,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,900 Americans named Skylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skylah?
#2,323 among girls’ names, 2025
Skylah fell from #1,380 in 2015 to #2,323 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.4 to 49.2 per million.
178 babies in 2016, the peak
Skylah peaked in 2016, when 178 girls were given it, #1,335 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,323 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,924 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,833 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,691 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,693 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,750 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 177 | #1,291 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,457 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172 | #1,380 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,652 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,646 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 104 | #2,003 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,249 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,886 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,049 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,665 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,698 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,966 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,912 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,507 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,036 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,668 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,384 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,732 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,918 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Skylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skylah, and how old are they?
2,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,917 Americans ever recorded as Skylah. The median Skylah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,721 people named Skylah (1,711 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,760 |
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 Skylah born?
The states with the most babies named Skylah are Florida, Texas and California, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,862 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,244 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #3,060 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,387 | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,754 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,670 | 0.4× |
Where Skylah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skylah is most over-represented in New York: since 1991 it was given 2.3 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 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 Skylah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Skylah?
Skylah is a less common spelling of Skyla: SSA has recorded 2,917 Skylah and 14,344 Skyla since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 20,916 babies since 1880, Skylah is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 416 babies (19%), again the second 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 Skylah
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 Skylah and names like it
- Compare Skylah and SkylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSkylah peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Skylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Skylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.