Skyler — #760 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Skyler

The Social Security Administration has registered 41,509 babies named Skyler between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Skyler currently holds the #760 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 1,558 babies received it in a single year. Skyler is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27,264 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Skyler performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 14,046 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Skyler shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,390 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Skyler in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Skyler 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 41,509 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.