Skyler

What Skyler means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #283 in 2015, #670 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Skyler?

US: Falling: down from #283 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #366 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 1,284 girls got the name (#250 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 3,809 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,665 baby girls in England and Wales 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 MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.65 per 1,000 girls), CT (0.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Skyler is #670 in the US and #922 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 56.5% of US babies named Skyler 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

• Skylar1,818 US · 139 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

• Skylar

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Skyler

Girls

• Mckenna#410Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1972, with 5 babies
• Makenna#593Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2005, with 1,619 babies; 495 in 2025
• Camryn#476Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Makenzie#700Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #210 in 2015, #700 in 2025
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Kamryn#556Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*

For a brother

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Maxwell#189“well”^*
• Davis#668Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #668 vs #5,137 in 2025
• Kameron#466Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Peyton#683Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2007, with 3,375 babies; 398 in 2025
• Logan#53“little hollow”^*

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 Skyler’s. Rank is US 2025.