Skylar
Skylar was given to 1,818 girls in 2025, #167 among girls’ names; 105,716 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 105,000 Americans named Skylar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skylar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Skylar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Skylar is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname [in turn from Dutch].”
Pronunciation spelling of Schuyler used since the 1980s.
/ˈskaɪ.lɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Skylar?
#167 among girls’ names, 2025
Skylar fell from #42 in 2015 to #167 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.0 to 1.1 per 1,000.
5,653 babies in 2015, the peak
Skylar peaked in 2015, when 5,653 babies were given it (5,295 girls, #42 among girls’ names). The 1,931 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,818 | #167 | 113 | #1,537 |
| 2024 | 2,195 | #134 | 113 | #1,554 |
| 2023 | 2,538 | #107 | 150 | #1,285 |
| 2022 | 2,894 | #87 | 159 | #1,243 |
| 2021 | 3,346 | #74 | 154 | #1,243 |
| 2020 | 3,645 | #64 | 162 | #1,193 |
| 2019 | 4,054 | #56 | 213 | #992 |
| 2018 | 4,411 | #49 | 233 | #920 |
| 2017 | 4,736 | #48 | 282 | #808 |
| 2016 | 5,137 | #42 | 321 | #759 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5,295 | #42 | 358 | #704 |
| 2014 | 4,779 | #48 | 414 | #635 |
| 2013 | 3,790 | #73 | 490 | #543 |
| 2012 | 3,349 | #87 | 457 | #567 |
| 2011 | 2,162 | #145 | 481 | #527 |
| 2010 | 1,723 | #180 | 493 | #525 |
| 2009 | 1,776 | #184 | 547 | #498 |
| 2008 | 1,750 | #192 | 532 | #512 |
| 2007 | 2,060 | #171 | 564 | #477 |
| 2006 | 2,352 | #145 | 632 | #435 |
| 2005 | 2,241 | #154 | 563 | #453 |
| 2004 | 2,176 | #154 | 537 | #470 |
| 2003 | 2,305 | #144 | 632 | #408 |
| 2002 | 2,391 | #141 | 680 | #383 |
| 2001 | 2,344 | #141 | 734 | #361 |
| 2000 | 2,503 | #135 | 748 | #356 |
| 1999 | 2,513 | #131 | 695 | #374 |
| 1998 | 1,731 | #173 | 730 | #358 |
| 1997 | 953 | #302 | 657 | #372 |
| 1996 | 855 | #328 | 636 | #373 |
| 1995 | 685 | #386 | 561 | #408 |
| 1994 | 621 | #403 | 585 | #398 |
| 1993 | 547 | #456 | 574 | #404 |
| 1992 | 413 | #567 | 469 | #464 |
| 1991 | 364 | #620 | 415 | #486 |
| 1990 | 419 | #560 | 448 | #465 |
| 1989 | 128 | #1,239 | 296 | #562 |
| 1988 | 117 | #1,258 | 229 | #625 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,311 | 245 | #581 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,859 | 171 | #696 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,073 | 175 | #671 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,969 | 146 | #722 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,106 | 96 | #902 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,161 | 103 | #883 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,931 | 89 | #958 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,265 | 26 | #2,104 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,372 | 35 | #1,667 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,427 | 16 | #2,779 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,837 | 20 | #2,345 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,974 | 10 | #3,681 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,047 | 10 | #3,626 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,584 | 8 | #4,138 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,655 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,789 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,656 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,506 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,456 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,549 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,274 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 10 | #2,878 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 10 | #2,796 |
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 Skylar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 105,716 Americans recorded as Skylar, 83% are girls and 17% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Skylar every year since 1994. In 2025 it went to 1,818 girls and 113 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Skylar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skylar, and how old are they?
105,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 105,716 Americans ever recorded as Skylar. The median Skylar alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 77,387 people named Skylar (62,028 women and girls, 15,359 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88,521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 207 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 43,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 51,500 |
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 Skylar born?
The states with the most babies named Skylar are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 168 | #223 | 0.8× |
| California | 141 | #256 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 128 | #145 | 1.1× |
| New York | 107 | #151 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 95 | #88 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 94 | #112 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #133 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 75 | #125 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 71 | #105 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 65 | #173 | 1.0× |
Where Skylar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skylar is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1959 it was given 1.7 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 Skylar 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 177,470 babies since 1880, Skylar is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,931 of their 2,692 babies (72%), 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 Skylar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jaycee | 12,712 |
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 Skylar and names like it
- Compare Skylar and SkylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSkylar peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skylar since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Skylar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Skylar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Skylar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.