Skylar

What Skylar means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Skylar yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #42 in 2015, #167 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Skylar?

US: Falling: down from #42 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #207 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 5,295 girls got the name (#42 that year). First in the US records in 1974.

How common

• About 1 in 884 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,822 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (3.42 per 1,000 girls), MS (3.15 per 1,000 girls), WV (3.15 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Skylar is #167 in the US and #312 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.1% of US babies named Skylar were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Skyler422 US · 38 E&W
• Skilar9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Skyler

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Skylar

Girls

• Raegan#505Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1963, with 9 babies
• Mckinley#712Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1978, with 5 babies
• Karsyn#718Editor’s note Used for both: 70% of US babies named Karsyn in 2025 were girls
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Emma#3“entire”^*

For a brother

• Zane#324Variant of Zayn, meaning “beauty”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Jax#342Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Camden#205“enclosure + valley”^*
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Skylar’s. Rank is US 2025.