Girls' name · since 1995
Skyra
Skyra has 133 recorded births since 1995 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2013 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #24,067 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,745 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 133
- born since 1995
- 2020s
- peak decade
133 babies have been named Skyra since 1995, making it today's #9745 girls' name.
Skyra has 133 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9745 as of the latest data, more common than 44% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2025.
- #24,067 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,745 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 133 born since 1995
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Skyra ranks #24,067 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,745 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 133 born since 1995, peaking in the 2020s.
- #24,067 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,745 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 133
- born since 1995
- 2020s
- peak decade
Skyra's 133 recorded births place it above 66.72% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Skyra compares
133 30th 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
Skyra's all-time total is 65% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Skyra | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 133 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Skyra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Skyra splits its recorded history at 2014: 56% of all births land in the more recent half, 44% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1995 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2013 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Skyra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2025
- Peak year (2013)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Skyra by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (57 births, 43% of the file).
2020s was Skyra's strongest decade.
57 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Skyra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 11
1990s
11 births
- 2000s 21
2000s
21 births
- 2010s
2010s
44 births
- 2020s
2020s
57 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 57 births (43% of all-time use).
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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, 1995–2025 (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 Skyra 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.