Skip
About 2,116 American babies have been named Skip since 1930, most of them around 1960. Its origin is given as Old Norse. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 1,600 Skips are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Skip
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,116
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 752nd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,446th
- First recorded
- 1930
How old the living Skips are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,116 babies given the name since 1930, about 1,600 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 690 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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 Old Norse
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Skips
- Skip James (1902–1969)American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter
- Skip Spence (1946–1999)Canadian-American musician
- Skip Marley (born 1996)Jamaican singer and songwriter
- Skip Barber (born 1936)racecar driver
- Skip Woods (born 1967)Screenwriter, film director, film producer
- Skip Homeier (1930–2017)American actor
People named Skip with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Skip is most common
Across the country Skip is recorded 0.14 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Skips are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Skip peaked:
Related names
Skip 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.