Skylar · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Skylar.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1974

Hover over or drag across the chart to see any year.

Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 52 recorded years as a table

Skylar, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1974	4
1975	5
1976	7
1977	7
1978	5
1979	8
1980	7
1981	9
1982	8
1983	8
1984	12
1985	17
1986	36
1987	61
1988	66
1989	69
1990	221
1991	194
1992	224
1993	302
1994	348
1995	390
1996	488
1997	547
1998	980
1999	1,417
2000	1,378
2001	1,302
2002	1,331
2003	1,262
2004	1,185
2005	1,213
2006	1,237
2007	1,071
2008	925
2009	967
2010	969
2011	1,229
2012	1,902
2013	2,160
2014	2,675
2015	2,966
2016	2,899
2017	2,743
2018	2,593
2019	2,415
2020	2,255
2021	2,039
2022	1,764
2023	1,582
2024	1,355
2025	1,131

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Compared with the country as a whole, pooled over 2023–2025.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFL

Delaware 3.6×
Mississippi 3.2×
West Virginia 2.4×
Alabama 2.3×
New Hampshire 2.0×

See Skylar on a full map

More like it

More like Skylar

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025: 1,818
Rank in 2025: #167
How rare: 1 in 884 girls
Since 1974: 87,442

Most popular in 2015, at 2,966 per million girls born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has fallen by 62% per million girls born.

Top 5 states by concentration, pooled over 2023–2025
State	Times the national rate	Births pooled
Delaware	3.6×	32
Mississippi	3.2×	118
West Virginia	2.4×	50
Alabama	2.3×	170
New Hampshire	2.0×	31

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.