Skylar

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology.

Babies a year
4,984
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#167
down from #134
UK popularity
#312
139 babies · down from #256

How Skylar has moved

US popularity rank, 20152025. Lower is more popular.
#27#105#182201520202025#167

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#42
2016#42
2017#47
2018#50
2019#56
2020#63
2021#74
2022#87
2023#107
2024#134
2025#167

In 2025, 139 babies in England and Wales were named Skylar. In the US, 4,984 were, though that figure is from 2017 — the most recent full year we hold.

Looking further back: between 1880 and 2008, Skylar was most common in 2000, when it went to 0.13% of American babies of that sex.

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