Skyla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 117 babies a year in England and Wales.
How Skyla has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #551 |
| 2016 | #548 |
| 2017 | #558 |
| 2018 | #557 |
| 2019 | #576 |
| 2020 | #634 |
| 2021 | #632 |
| 2022 | #757 |
| 2023 | #812 |
| 2024 | #850 |
| 2025 | #986 |
Skyla by the numbers
In 2025, 117 babies in England and Wales were named Skyla. In the US, 547 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 604 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
At its height, in 2005, about 1 in 4,000 American girls born that year was called Skyla.
What we can tell you about Skyla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Skyla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Skyla
Names that are said the same way as Skyla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Skyla
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