Schuyler
The boy's name Schuyler has been in the national records since 1880, with 5,480 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 4,700 Schuylers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Schuyler boys named Schuyler
Girls and boys called Schuyler
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,314 girls and 4,166 boys in all, and in 2020 the split was 15 to 12.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 53 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,480
- Estimated living today
- 4,700
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 945th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,314 / 4,166
How old the living Schuylers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,480 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,700 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 250 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname, from Dutch
A Dutch surname (cf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Schuylers
- Schuyler Colfax (1823–1885)Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873
- Schuyler Fisk (born 1982)American actress, singer and songwriter
- Schuyler Enck (1900–1970)athletics competitor
- Schuyler Carron (1921–1964)bobsledder
- Schuyler Wheeler (1860–1923)American inventor of the two-blade electric fan
People named Schuyler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Schuyler is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Schuyler is most concentrated in New York (4.8×), Washington (2.3×), California (2.2×), Indiana (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Schuyler peaked:
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Schuyler against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.