Primarily a girl's name · Unisex — 82% girls / 18% boys
Skyler or Skylar is a unisex given name, an Anglicized spelling of the surname and given name Schuyler. Schuyler was introduced into America as a surname by 17th-century Dutch settlers arriving in New York.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Skylar yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Skylar peaked on both measures during 2015, reaching 5,294 births alongside rank 42. A 54% surrender since drops it to 2,186 births and rank 134. Recorded from 1974, 103,743 births, no listed origin. Two bearers appear, the musician Skylar Grey, born 1986, and the actor Skylar Astin, and neither predates the rise. The name is genuinely unisex and additionally fragmented across Skyler, Schuyler and Skye, so the counted string is a poor guide to how often the sound is used. Its arc closely tracks Blake's — another unisex name that climbed hard and fell hard — which reinforces the pattern that names without a settled sex tend to have shorter, sharper lives.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,585 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,049 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,976 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,839 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,428 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,373 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,266 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,931 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,164 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,107 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,970 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,154 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,860 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,312 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,267 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,247 |
| 1990 | 419 | #561 |
| 1991 | 364 | #620 |
| 1992 | 413 | #567 |
| 1993 | 547 | #456 |
| 1994 | 621 | #403 |
| 1995 | 685 | #386 |
| 1996 | 855 | #328 |
| 1997 | 953 | #302 |
| 1998 | 1,731 | #173 |
| 1999 | 2,513 | #131 |
| 2000 | 2,503 | #135 |
| 2001 | 2,344 | #141 |
| 2002 | 2,391 | #141 |
| 2003 | 2,305 | #144 |
| 2004 | 2,176 | #154 |
| 2005 | 2,241 | #154 |
| 2006 | 2,352 | #145 |
| 2007 | 2,060 | #171 |
| 2008 | 1,750 | #192 |
| 2009 | 1,774 | #185 |
| 2010 | 1,723 | #180 |
| 2011 | 2,161 | #145 |
| 2012 | 3,348 | #87 |
| 2013 | 3,789 | #73 |
| 2014 | 4,778 | #48 |
| 2015 | 5,294 | #42 |
| 2016 | 5,134 | #42 |
| 2017 | 4,736 | #48 |
| 2018 | 4,407 | #49 |
| 2019 | 4,049 | #56 |
| 2020 | 3,640 | #64 |
| 2021 | 3,346 | #74 |
| 2022 | 2,892 | #87 |
| 2023 | 2,537 | #107 |
| 2024 | 2,186 | #134 |
