girls:
23k births since 1952
#937 (84th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1957
#2390 (48th percentile)
overall:
25.8k births since 1952
#1576 (80th percentile)
The name Skye is the #1,576 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,809 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 79.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #937 (83.6% percentile) for all time with 23,029 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #2,390 (47.9% percentile) for all time with 2,780 births since 1957.
Skye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1957 for boys). Birth data for Skye is available in 66 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (66 years for girls and 55 years for boys). 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 Skye has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 90.8% of babies named Skye were girls.
For girls, Skye reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 64.1% percentile (ranked #348) with 453 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 453 births per million (ranked 64.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Skye ranks #408 for girls (57.0% percentile) with 390 births per million, which is 86.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Skye reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #698) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Skye ranks #847 for boys (7.0% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 88.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skye".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Skye is pronounced as skai, which has 1 syllables.
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