Skylar — #134 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Skylar

The Social Security Administration has registered 85,585 babies named Skylar between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Skylar currently holds the #134 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 5,294 babies received it in a single year. Skylar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18,158 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Skylar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 39,419 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Skylar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,371 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Skylar in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Skylar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 85,585 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.