Skylar

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Skylar: Recorded every year since 1998, it reached #96 in 2017, and it stood at #266 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
64times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
1999	#2189
2000	#2167
2001	#2023
2002	#1784
2003	#1996
2004	#1459
2005	#1500
2006	#1435
2007	#987
2008	#1584
2009	#1022
2010	#1218
2011	#534
2012	#376
2013	#276
2014	#212
2015	#207
2016	#196
2017	#177
2018	#151
2019	#165
2020	#162
2021	#159
2022	#174
2023	#216
2024	#256

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #215 among girls in Scotland, #256 among girls in England and Wales, #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2023
Highest recorded position: #96 among girls in New Zealand, in 2017 (recorded 2017–2023).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #266 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Skylar appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 3,648 births with the name.

Skylar across 5 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.

Skylar'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 · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#151 (2018)	#256 (2024)	27 of 27	3,648 (1998–2024)	345 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#560 (2012)	#222 (2022)	#266 (2025)	13 of 14	177 (2012–2025)	20 (2022)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#3315 (2013)	#3990 (2021)	9 of 13	35 (2009–2021)	5 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#171 (2018)	#288 (2024)	12 of 13	67 (2012–2024)	12 (2018)
New Zealand · Girls	#96 (2017)	#96 (2017)	#97 (2023)	2 of 7	82 (2017–2023)	41 (2017)

Skylar 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 Skylar in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	159	10 of 10	16
2010s	2,139	10 of 10	214
2020sbusiest	1,339	5 of 10	268

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 268 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 76, from 171 to 247.

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

Skylar 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 5 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2017.

Skylar'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	#256	190	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#216	219	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#174	293	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#159	325	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#162	312	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#165	307	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#151	345	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#177	304	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#196	278	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#207	258	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#212	247	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#276	171	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#376	125	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#534	78	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1218	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	female	#97	41	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#96	41	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#171	12	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#312	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	16	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#222	20	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	15	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#271	17	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#244	19	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#316	14	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	12	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#560	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#215	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 5 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 2017.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 345 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

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 2012, and 26 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.

Skyla-Rose · #806, 15y
Skylah · #791, 19y
Skylar-Mae · #2058, 12y
Skylar-Rae · #2201, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Cohen · #96, 30y
Niko · #96, 29y
Payton · #96, 29y
Maverick · #97, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Keanu · #96, 30y

Skylar was ranked #96 in New Zealand · Girls in 2017. 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.

Skylar 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 Skylar without appearing here.

Skylar moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1435 and #3548.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #3998.
Marilyn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1996 and #1843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1459 and #3197.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3142 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #2189 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Skylar

Rune Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3478 and #4810 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #4812 and #3449.
Thea Compare
In 2013 they stood at #383 and #451 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #365 and #106.
Alma Compare
In 2023 they stood at #364 and #625 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #441 and #213.
Violet Compare
In 2022 they stood at #222 and #254 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2023 that had become #364 and #163.

Moved the opposite way to Skylar

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Skylar

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Skylar went from #3142 to #256 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

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 5 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Skylar

Skylar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Skylar across 5 official records

Skylar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Skylar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Skylar and the names beside it

Skylar moved ahead of

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Skylar at a glance

Skylar across 5 official records

Skylar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Skylar appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Skylar

Skylar and the names beside it

Skylar moved ahead of

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