Skylyn
Skylyn was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,740 among girls’ names; 1,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Skylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skylyn?
#4,740 among girls’ names, 2025
Skylyn fell from #2,842 in 2015 to #4,740 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 18.0 per million.
62 babies in 2014, the peak
Skylyn peaked in 2014, when 62 girls were given it, #2,802 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,740 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,750 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,379 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,778 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,396 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,992 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,035 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,998 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,138 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,180 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,842 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,802 | 34.7 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,399 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,126 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,991 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,100 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,915 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,162 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,283 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,793 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,562 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,371 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,644 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,159 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,665 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,952 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,846 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,959 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,109 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,033 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,627 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Skylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skylyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skylyn, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,172 Americans ever recorded as Skylyn. The median Skylyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 813 people named Skylyn (784 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 33 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 533 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 595 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,445 babies since 1880, Skylyn is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 249 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Skylyn
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 Skylyn and names like it
- Compare Skylyn and SkylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Skylyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Skylyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.