girls:
13.8k births since 1959
#1317 (77th percentile)
overall:
13.8k births since 1959
#2231 (71st percentile)
The name Skyla is the #2,231 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,755 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 71.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,317 (77.0% percentile) for all time with 13,755 births since 1959.
Skyla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for girls in 1959). Birth data for Skyla is available in 60 out of the 65 years between 1959 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 girls, Skyla reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 52.5% percentile (ranked #446) with 311 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 311 births per million (ranked 52.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Skyla ranks #625 for girls (34.0% percentile) with 196 births per million, which is 63.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skyla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Skyla is pronounced as SKAI-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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