girls:
1.3k births since 1948
#4431 (22nd percentile)
boys:
4.1k births since 1880
#1896 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1880
#3701 (52nd percentile)
The name Schuyler is the #3,701 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,441 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,896 (58.6% percentile) for all time with 4,149 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,431 (22.5% percentile) for all time with 1,292 births since 1948.
Schuyler has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1948 for girls). Birth data for Schuyler is available in 126 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 53 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Schuyler has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 57.1% of babies named Schuyler were boys.
For boys, Schuyler reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 16.1% percentile (ranked #645) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 63 births per million (ranked 15.9% percentile). Despite a low point around 2011, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Schuyler ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 10.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Schuyler reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #830) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Schuyler ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 16.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Schuyler".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Schuyler. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Schuyler is pronounced as SKAI-ler, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SKUE-ler, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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