Skylynn
Skylynn was given to 136 girls in 2025, #1,557 among girls’ names; 3,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,310 Americans named Skylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skylynn?
#1,557 among girls’ names, 2025
Skylynn fell from #1,286 in 2015 to #1,557 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
191 babies in 2018, the peak
Skylynn peaked in 2018, when 191 girls were given it, #1,228 among girls’ names. The 136 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,716 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,372 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 147 | #1,488 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,608 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,451 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,228 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,286 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,288 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,672 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,939 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,895 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,030 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,310 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,666 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,221 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,582 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,699 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,302 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,913 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,666 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,430 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,361 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,417 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,057 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,592 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Skylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skylynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skylynn, and how old are they?
3,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,339 Americans ever recorded as Skylynn. The median Skylynn alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,976 people named Skylynn (1,948 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 60 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,040 |
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 Skylynn born?
The states with the most babies named Skylynn are Texas, Ohio and Indiana, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,347 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,024 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 9 | #718 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,062 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 8 | #952 | 1.3× |
| New York | 7 | #1,808 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,215 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,224 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,122 | 0.8× |
Where Skylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Skylynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1988 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Skylynn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,445 babies since 1880, Skylynn is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 249 babies (55%), again the 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 Skylynn
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 Skylynn and names like it
- Compare Skylynn and SkylynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSkylynn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Skylynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Skylynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.