boys:
2.1k births since 1930
#2748 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1930
#5692 (26th percentile)
The name Skip is the #5,692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,090 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 26.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,748 (40.0% percentile) for all time with 2,090 births since 1930.
Skip first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (first recorded for boys in 1930). Birth data for Skip is available in 73 out of the 94 years between 1930 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Skip reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #558) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 48 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Skip ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skip".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Skip is pronounced as skihp, which has 1 syllables.
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