Skylah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 155 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
155
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1315
24 babies

Skylah by the numbers

In 2025, 24 babies in England and Wales were named Skylah. In the US, 155 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 178 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Skylah

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 Skylah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
  • Skyla117 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Shylah39 in the US (2017)
  • Skylan35 in the US (2017)
  • Saylah18 in the US (2017)
  • Skyrah13 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Skylah

Names that are said the same way as Skylah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Skyllarock monster guarding strait of messina6 in the US (2017)
  • Skilah7 in the US (2017)
  • Skyela7 in the US (2017)
  • Skylaa6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Skylah

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