Skylen

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
25
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Skylen by the numbers

Skylen was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Skylen

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

  • Skylerscholar, learned one; modern respelling of Schuyler1,459 in the US (2017)
  • Skylan35 in the US (2017)
  • Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
  • Syler28 in the US (2017)
  • Skylor21 in the US (2017)
  • Shaylen11 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Skylen

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

  • Skylynscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Skyler51 in the US (2017)
  • Skylynn183 in the US (2017)
  • Skylin61 in the US (2017)
  • Skyelynn14 in the US (2017)
  • Skilynn12 in the US (2017)
  • Skyelyn12 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Skylen

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