Sky vs Skye

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Sky Skye

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Skye for 62 years and Sky for 12 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1952 Skye ahead
• 1953–1955 Sky ahead
• 1956–1957 Skye ahead
• 1958–1962 Sky ahead
• 1963–1967 Skye ahead
• 1968–1970 Sky ahead
• 1971–1977 Skye ahead
• 1978 Sky ahead
• 1979–2025 Skye ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

• Sky Florida (2.8×), California (2.6×), Nevada (2.0×)
• Skye Hawaii (4.0×), Nevada (3.0×), Utah (2.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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