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How popular is the name Skye?
Births per year, rank history and how many Skyes are alive today.
Skye (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 219th in 2025 with 214 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when 930 babies were given the name, the 67th most popular that year. It has declined since 2007; the 2025 figure is roughly 23% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 13,000 babies have been named Skye in England and Wales since 1996. Skye is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sky; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Skye you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Skyes born in England and Wales are between 12 and 22, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 5.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Skye.
How many babies are named Skye each year?
Includes all spellings: Skye, Sky. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Skye spelling rank?
Where does the Sky spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Skye most popular?
Skye peaked in 2007, when 1,205 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Skye?
At least 17,000 people named Skye in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Skye?
Most living Skyes are between 12 and 22; the most common age is about 18.
Is Skye becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak.