# Sky (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sky/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,948 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,205 / 9,743 (70% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,934, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 264 | 974 |
| 2012 | 314 | 851 |
| 2013 | 296 | 873 |
| 2014 | 386 | 726 |
| 2015 | 367 | 774 |
| 2016 | 366 | 776 |
| 2017 | 335 | 817 |
| 2018 | 315 | 863 |
| 2019 | 337 | 810 |
| 2020 | 337 | 806 |
| 2021 | 405 | 712 |
| 2022 | 396 | 737 |
| 2023 | 360 | 786 |
| 2024 | 333 | 826 |
| 2025 | 272 | 949 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 77 | 1,846 |
| 2012 | 97 | 1,614 |
| 2013 | 96 | 1,612 |
| 2014 | 124 | 1,383 |
| 2015 | 84 | 1,802 |
| 2016 | 86 | 1,783 |
| 2017 | 91 | 1,724 |
| 2018 | 88 | 1,758 |
| 2019 | 92 | 1,722 |
| 2020 | 96 | 1,670 |
| 2021 | 100 | 1,665 |
| 2022 | 114 | 1,564 |
| 2023 | 105 | 1,648 |
| 2024 | 100 | 1,683 |
| 2025 | 101 | 1,661 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 111 | 404 |
| 2012 | 95 | 470 |
| 2013 | 71 | 575 |
| 2014 | 87 | 486 |
| 2015 | 59 | 686 |
| 2016 | 70 | 605 |
| 2017 | 62 | 666 |
| 2018 | 44 | 843 |
| 2019 | 42 | 864 |
| 2020 | 45 | 807 |
| 2021 | 53 | 709 |
| 2022 | 43 | 826 |
| 2023 | 37 | 941 |
| 2024 | 33 | 1,036 |
| 2025 | 38 | 922 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,701 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## People named Sky

- Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter, model, and actress (born 1992)
- Sky Brown, British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer
- Sky Kim, Australian male archer
- Sky Katz, American actress, rapper and singer
- Sky Saxon, American singer (1937–2009)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.