# Skylar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/skylar/  
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 | Dutch |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈskaɪ.lɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Skyler |
| US babies named this | 105,716 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 18,274 / 87,442 (83% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,827, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of Schuyler used since the 1980s.

## 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 | 2,162 | 145 |
| 2012 | 3,349 | 87 |
| 2013 | 3,790 | 73 |
| 2014 | 4,779 | 48 |
| 2015 | 5,295 | 42 |
| 2016 | 5,137 | 42 |
| 2017 | 4,736 | 48 |
| 2018 | 4,411 | 49 |
| 2019 | 4,054 | 56 |
| 2020 | 3,645 | 64 |
| 2021 | 3,346 | 74 |
| 2022 | 2,894 | 87 |
| 2023 | 2,538 | 107 |
| 2024 | 2,195 | 134 |
| 2025 | 1,818 | 167 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 481 | 527 |
| 2012 | 457 | 567 |
| 2013 | 490 | 543 |
| 2014 | 414 | 635 |
| 2015 | 358 | 704 |
| 2016 | 321 | 759 |
| 2017 | 282 | 808 |
| 2018 | 233 | 920 |
| 2019 | 213 | 992 |
| 2020 | 162 | 1,193 |
| 2021 | 154 | 1,243 |
| 2022 | 159 | 1,243 |
| 2023 | 150 | 1,285 |
| 2024 | 113 | 1,554 |
| 2025 | 113 | 1,537 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 78 | 534 |
| 2012 | 125 | 376 |
| 2013 | 171 | 276 |
| 2014 | 247 | 212 |
| 2015 | 258 | 207 |
| 2016 | 278 | 196 |
| 2017 | 304 | 177 |
| 2018 | 345 | 151 |
| 2019 | 307 | 165 |
| 2020 | 312 | 162 |
| 2021 | 325 | 159 |
| 2022 | 293 | 174 |
| 2023 | 219 | 216 |
| 2024 | 190 | 256 |
| 2025 | 139 | 312 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Skylar

- Skylar Grey, American singer
- Skylar Astin, American actor
- Skylar Diggins-Smith, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Skylar Park, Canadian taekwondoin
- Skylar Mays, American basketball player (born 1997)
- Skylar Stecker, American singer and songwriter (born 2002)
- Sky Katz, American actress, rapper and singer

## 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.