Skyler
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Meaning
scholar
The story
Skyler is the Dutch schuyler, the scholar, worn into an American name that families now hear as the sky with a settled spelling. The record is genuinely shared: about 41,800 boys to 27,700 girls all-time, and this decade the lead has flipped, 3,137 girls to 2,313 boys so far. The rise was steep: about 3,900 in the 1980s, 17,800 in the 1990s, cresting at 24,300 in the 2000s, then 17,800 in the 2010s. Skylar, the sister spelling one letter away, runs bigger, about 105,700 to 69,500, and the two move together the way spelling couples do. Television handed the name its most argued-over bearer in the 2010s, the chemistry teacher's wife, and the name outlasted the argument. A scholar at the root, a sky in the ear: Skyler reads bright both ways.
How popular is Skyler around the world?
In the United States, 5,450 babies were named Skyler between 2020 and 2025.
Skyler is on the official records of the United States, South Australia, Scotland, Canada, England and Wales, Ireland and Mexico City.
United States
1 in 4,000
In the United States, 5,450 babies were named Skyler between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Skyler peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. In 2025 Skyler went to 422 girls and 325 boys in the US Social Security record, one of the few names given to girls and boys in nearly equal numbers. Skyler went to 2,040 US babies in 2015 and 747 in 2025, 37% of the earlier figure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
South Australia
1 in 4,6002017
In South Australia, 4 girls were registered as Skyler in 2017.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Scotland
1 in 5,700
In Scotland, 8 girls named Skyler were registered in 2024, the 384th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Canada
1 in 6,300
In Canada, 34 boys named Skyler were born in 2024, the 772nd most common name among boys that year.
In Canada, 24 girls named Skyler were born in 2024, ranked 1,075th among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 12,000
In England and Wales, 38 girls named Skyler were born in 2025, the 922nd most common name among girls that year.
In England and Wales, 10 boys named Skyler were born in 2025, ranked 2,269th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Ireland
1 in 14,000
In Ireland, 4 girls named Skyler were born in 2025, the 718th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Mexico City City
1 in 120,000
In Mexico City, there was 1 registration of Skyler in 2022.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Argentina
last on record 2020
Skyler is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Austria
last on record 2022
Skyler is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Poland
last on record 2016
Skyler is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Not on the record in Spain, Puerto Rico and New Zealand: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Skyler
Most people given the name Skyler in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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