Sky

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sky: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sky: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #197 in 2007, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
69times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#197highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#506
1997	#536
1998	#493
1999	#389
2000	#458
2001	#391
2002	#401
2003	#415
2004	#323
2005	#238
2006	#216
2007	#197
2008	#271
2009	#279
2010	#334
2011	#404
2012	#470
2013	#575
2014	#486
2015	#686
2016	#605
2017	#666
2018	#843
2019	#864
2020	#807
2021	#709
2022	#826
2023	#941
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1036 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #506 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #197 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sky appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,707 births with the name.

Sky across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sky's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1467 (2001)	#2088 (2024)	28 of 29	171 (1996–2024)	14 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#506 (1996)	#197 (2007)	#1036 (2024)	29 of 29	2,707 (1996–2024)	275 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#555 (2023)	#898 (2024)	9 of 17	32 (2008–2024)	6 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#397 (2020)	#397 (2020)	2 of 14	6 (2007–2020)	3 (2007)

Sky by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sky in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	241	4 of 10	60
2000sbusiest	1,474	10 of 10	147
2010s	781	10 of 10	78
2020s	211	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 147 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births fell by 98, from 275 to 177.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sky appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #197 in England and Wales in 2007.

Sky's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#826	43	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#709	53	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#864	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#666	62	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#605	70	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#686	59	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#486	87	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#575	71	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#470	95	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#404	111	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#334	140	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#279	171	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#271	177	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#197	275	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#216	223	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#238	191	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#323	123	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#415	86	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#401	82	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#391	80	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#458	66	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#389	83	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#493	57	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#536	49	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#506	52	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #197, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 275 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Skye · #45, 37y
Skyla · #82, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rayyan · #197, 30y
Vienna · #197, 29y
Syeda · #199, 30y
Zander · #199, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Rayyan · #197, 30y
Vienna · #197, 29y
Liadh · #196, 30y
Barnaby · #195, 29y

Sky was ranked #197 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sky and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sky without appearing here.

Sky moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1701 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1701 and #4107.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3017 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #4789.

Moved ahead of Sky

Matheo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3040 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2693.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2254 and #848.
Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #2403.
Kasper Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2254 and #1411.

Moved the opposite way to Sky

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Sky

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sky went from #506 to #1036 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #197 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Sky across 4 official records

Sky by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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