girls:
83.4k births since 1974
#424 (93rd percentile)
boys:
18k births since 1959
#856 (81st percentile)
overall:
101.4k births since 1959
#675 (91st percentile)
The name Skylar is the #675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 101,398 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 91.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #424 (92.6% percentile) for all time with 83,360 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #856 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 18,038 births since 1959.
Skylar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Skylar is available in 59 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (59 years for boys and 50 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 Skylar has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.5% of babies named Skylar were girls. Interestingly, until around 1995, the name was more popular for boys (59.1% boys from 1959 to 1994), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (85.4% girls from 1995 to 2023).
For girls, Skylar reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #42) with 2,713 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 2,713 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Skylar ranks #104 for girls (89.1% percentile) with 1,442 births per million, which is 53.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Skylar reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 58.5% percentile (ranked #343) with 355 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 360 births per million (ranked 57.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Skylar ranks #769 for boys (15.6% percentile) with 80 births per million, which is 22.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skylar".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Skylar is pronounced as SKAI-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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