Skye
Skye is ranked 480th among girls in 2024 (642 births). Its best rank was 367th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #480down 33 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6420.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014887 births
- Best rank
- #367in 2014
- Since 1952
- 26,528people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,684 girls have been named Skye in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 887 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 367 → 480).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 31%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,844 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Skye was the 367th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Skye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amnapeak 2015
- Syedapeak 2024
- Saraipeak 2007
- Kalinapeak 2019
- Keniapeak 2016
- Hanapeak 2005
- Betsabepeak 2004
- Vivianapeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.