Unisex name · since 2000
Skylen
Skylen has 241 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2017 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,954 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,897 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 241
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
241 babies have been named Skylen since 2000, making it today's #15897 unisex name.
Skylen has 241 recorded births among girls since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15897 as of the latest data, more common than 8% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #17,954 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,897 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 241 born since 2000
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Skylen ranks #17,954 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,897 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 241 born since 2000, peaking in the 2010s.
- #17,954 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,897 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 241
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Skylen's 241 recorded births place it above 75.17% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Skylen compares
241 41st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Skylen's all-time total is 36% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Skylen | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 241 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Skylen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Skylen's full recorded timeline at 2014, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2000, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2017 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Skylen popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Skylen popularity over time - boys
162 total births recorded since 1999 (Skylen as boys' name)
Skylen by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (118 births, 49% of the file).
2010s was Skylen's strongest decade.
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Skylen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
63 births
- 2010s
2010s
118 births
- 2020s
2020s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 118 births (49% of all-time use).
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- Skylen's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (118 total births) through the 2020s (60) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Skylen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2017)
Similar record span (~25 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Skylen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.