Skylar
The 2025 national count puts Skylar at #167, drifting down from its high. The record does not even know it before 1974; since then, 87,442 American children.
Skylar’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Skylar, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Skylar since 1974
Skylar peaked in 2015 at #42; #167 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Skylar is most common
Skylar is most common in New Hampshire: 0.34% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. West Virginia (0.32%) and Mississippi (0.31%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Skylar
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Sage
#160 in 2025
Sutton
#181 in 2025
Sloane
#141 in 2025
Stevie
#203 in 2025
Stetson
#136 in 2025
Selah
#216 in 2025
Saylor
#217 in 2025
Scottie
#126 in 2025
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About Skylar
How popular is the name Skylar?
The 2025 national count puts Skylar at #167, drifting down from its high. The full curve since 1974 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Skylar have a meaning on record?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Skylar. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Is there a sibling name for Skylar?
The recipe puts Sage first, then Sloane, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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