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How popular is the name Skylar?

Births per year, rank history and how many Skylars are alive today.

Skylar (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 312th in 2025 with 139 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 345 babies were given the name, the 151st most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 40% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Skylar is one spelling of a name also recorded as Skyler; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Skylar you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Skylars born in England and Wales are between 5 and 11, and there are at least 5,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Skylar.

How many babies are named Skylar each year?

Includes all spellings: Skylar, Skyler. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Skylar spelling rank?

Where does the Skyler 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.