Skyler
Skyler is given to both girls and boys: 422 girls and 325 boys were given it in 2025 (#671 among girls’ names and #783 among boys’, #859 among all names counting both); 69,539 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Skyler every year since 2014.
An estimated 68,300 Americans named Skyler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skyler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Skyler mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Skyler 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 Skyler?
#783 among boys’ names, 2025
Skyler fell from #360 in 2015 to #783 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.48 to 0.19 per 1,000.
2,756 babies in 2000, the peak
Skyler peaked in 2000, when 2,756 babies were given it (1,472 boys, #231 among boys’ names). The 747 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 422 | #671 | 325 | #783 |
| 2024 | 445 | #660 | 335 | #760 |
| 2023 | 479 | #623 | 366 | #729 |
| 2022 | 570 | #542 | 407 | #672 |
| 2021 | 554 | #553 | 387 | #687 |
| 2020 | 667 | #463 | 493 | #568 |
| 2019 | 715 | #439 | 567 | #506 |
| 2018 | 770 | #403 | 603 | #486 |
| 2017 | 817 | #382 | 656 | #463 |
| 2016 | 915 | #359 | 771 | #414 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,126 | #283 | 914 | #360 |
| 2014 | 1,084 | #300 | 924 | #351 |
| 2013 | 874 | #362 | 1,125 | #306 |
| 2012 | 839 | #372 | 1,230 | #288 |
| 2011 | 656 | #456 | 1,223 | #288 |
| 2010 | 639 | #474 | 1,320 | #262 |
| 2009 | 760 | #422 | 1,336 | #260 |
| 2008 | 765 | #423 | 1,312 | #264 |
| 2007 | 875 | #375 | 1,266 | #271 |
| 2006 | 1,037 | #316 | 1,281 | #270 |
| 2005 | 1,019 | #316 | 1,403 | #240 |
| 2004 | 1,033 | #310 | 1,424 | #234 |
| 2003 | 1,132 | #276 | 1,486 | #231 |
| 2002 | 1,162 | #270 | 1,558 | #222 |
| 2001 | 1,147 | #276 | 1,508 | #229 |
| 2000 | 1,284 | #250 | 1,472 | #231 |
| 1999 | 1,219 | #257 | 1,427 | #231 |
| 1998 | 1,022 | #295 | 1,384 | #230 |
| 1997 | 634 | #413 | 1,387 | #221 |
| 1996 | 536 | #469 | 1,392 | #217 |
| 1995 | 441 | #539 | 1,335 | #223 |
| 1994 | 382 | #591 | 1,355 | #214 |
| 1993 | 402 | #587 | 1,191 | #242 |
| 1992 | 314 | #689 | 1,097 | #258 |
| 1991 | 224 | #880 | 881 | #294 |
| 1990 | 283 | #736 | 847 | #301 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,568 | 676 | #341 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,547 | 551 | #368 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,430 | 454 | #409 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,333 | 423 | #414 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,262 | 393 | #431 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,131 | 319 | #472 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,261 | 244 | #538 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,162 | 201 | #604 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,706 | 175 | #644 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,501 | 79 | #1,021 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,373 | 55 | #1,253 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,428 | 52 | #1,256 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,276 | 34 | #1,640 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 23 | #2,106 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,355 | 26 | #1,877 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 21 | #2,118 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 8 | #4,007 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 10 | #3,310 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 13 | #2,793 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #4,176 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,933 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,915 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,893 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,956 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 13 | #2,393 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,989 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #4,006 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,617 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 9 | #3,014 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,431 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,476 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,880 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,765 |
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 Skyler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 69,539 Americans recorded as Skyler, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Skyler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skyler, and how old are they?
68,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 69,539 Americans ever recorded as Skyler. The median Skyler alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 56,083 people named Skyler (22,269 women and girls, 33,814 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63,483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 367 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,200 |
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 Skyler born?
The states with the most babies named Skyler are California, Texas and New York, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 115 | #460 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 62 | #949 | 0.7× |
| New York | 51 | #688 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 42 | #1,001 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 23 | #1,333 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #996 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #818 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 21 | #1,245 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 21 | #900 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 20 | #1,120 | 0.7× |
Where Skyler is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skyler is most over-represented in Utah: since 1954 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Skyler 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 176,994 babies since 1880, Skyler is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 747 of their 2,678 babies (28%), again the second 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 Skyler
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 Skyler and names like it
- Compare Skyler and SkylarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSkyler peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skyler since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Skyler: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Skyler.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Skyler alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.