Mostly girls
Brooklyn
Place-name from Dutch
“marshland”
Mostly girls · Spelling variation of Schuyler, Dutch
Skylar
“scholar”
Say it SKY-larPronunciation may vary by region.
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The story behind the name
Meet Skylar.
US birth records for 2025 list 1,818 girls named Skylar (rank #167) and 113 boys named Skylar (rank #1,537).
For girls, the recorded count fell from 2,195 in 2024 to 1,818 in 2025. The recorded number of boys with this name stayed at 113 compared with 2024.
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How popular is Skylar?
Girls · 2025#1671,818 recorded births
Boys · 2025#1,537113 recorded births
Recorded US births over time
● Girls● Boys
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| Year | Category | US rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Boys | 1,537 | 113 |
| 2025 | Girls | 167 | 1,818 |
| 2024 | Boys | 1,554 | 113 |
| 2024 | Girls | 134 | 2,195 |
| 2023 | Boys | 1,285 | 150 |
| 2023 | Girls | 107 | 2,538 |
| 2022 | Boys | 1,243 | 159 |
| 2022 | Girls | 87 | 2,894 |
| 2021 | Boys | 1,243 | 154 |
| 2021 | Girls | 74 | 3,346 |
| 2020 | Boys | 1,193 | 162 |
| 2020 | Girls | 64 | 3,645 |
| 2019 | Boys | 992 | 213 |
| 2019 | Girls | 56 | 4,054 |
| 2018 | Boys | 920 | 233 |
| 2018 | Girls | 49 | 4,411 |
| 2017 | Boys | 808 | 282 |
| 2017 | Girls | 48 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | Boys | 759 | 321 |
| 2016 | Girls | 42 | 5,137 |
| 2015 | Boys | 704 | 358 |
| 2015 | Girls | 42 | 5,295 |
| 2014 | Boys | 635 | 414 |
| 2014 | Girls | 48 | 4,779 |
Rankings are calculated separately for boys and girls. Records below the publication threshold may be missing; gaps are not zero births.
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