Skylan
Skylan is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,091 among girls’ names and #6,397 among boys’, #8,056 among all names counting both); 791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skylan?
#7,091 among girls’ names, 2025
Skylan fell from #4,968 in 2015 to #7,091 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
55 babies in 2016, the peak
Skylan peaked in 2016, when 55 babies were given it (35 girls, #4,233 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,091 | 14 | #6,397 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,212 | 17 | #5,621 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,378 | 18 | #5,423 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,674 | 16 | #5,827 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,457 | 15 | #5,988 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,529 | 16 | #5,656 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,330 | 14 | #6,355 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,205 | 12 | #7,062 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,797 | 13 | #6,613 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,233 | 20 | #4,914 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,968 | 23 | #4,381 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,773 | 19 | #5,029 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,460 | 20 | #4,771 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,307 | 7 | #10,588 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,117 | 13 | #6,526 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,718 | 13 | #6,649 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,021 | 9 | #8,892 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,061 | 10 | #8,213 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,944 | 10 | #8,073 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,184 | 9 | #8,618 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,804 | 5 | #13,066 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,485 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,209 | 5 | #12,490 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,219 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,665 | 5 | #12,051 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,624 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,558 | 5 | #11,361 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,873 | 5 | #11,062 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,916 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,429 | under 5 |
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 Skylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 791 Americans recorded as Skylan, 60% are girls and 40% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Skylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skylan, and how old are they?
An estimated 784 Americans named Skylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 544 people named Skylan (345 women and girls, 199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 592 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,055 babies since 1880, Skylan is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 231 babies (13%), the second 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 Skylan
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 Skylan and names like it
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Skylan.
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