girls:
436 births since 1990
#5280 (8th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1981
#3543 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1981
#6256 (19th percentile)
The name Skylor is the #6,256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,489 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 19.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,543 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,053 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,280 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 436 births since 1990.
Skylor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 1990 for girls).
The name Skylor has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Skylor were boys.
For boys, Skylor reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #736) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 32 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Skylor reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #869) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Skylor ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 34.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skylor".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Skylor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Skylor is pronounced as SKAI-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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