Skye
The girl's name Skye has been in the national records since 1952, with 27,165 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 529th. About 27,000 Skyes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Skye boys named Skye
Girls and boys called Skye
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 24,262 girls and 2,903 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 569 to 59.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 56 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
- 27,165
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 367th
- Rank in 2025
- 529th
- First recorded
- 1952
- Girls / boys
- 24,262 / 2,903
How old the living Skyes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,165 babies given the name since 1952, about 27,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 place name
Derived from Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, of long disputed (probably non-Indo-European qfa-sub) origin, with several theories proposed and none widely accepted; see Etymology of Skye.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Skyes
- Skye McCole Bartusiak (1992–2014)American actress
- Ione Skye (born 1970)British-born American actress
- Skye Sweetnam (born 1988)Canadian singer
- Skye Edwards (born 1974)British singer
People named Skye with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Skye is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Skye is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.0×), Nevada (3.0×), Utah (2.3×), Florida (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Skye peaked:
Skye elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Skye | 13,868 | 67th |
| Scotland girls | Skye | 3,108 | 27th |
| Ireland girls | Skye | 479 | 181st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Skye | 259 | 115th |
| Belgium girls | Skye | 189 | 352nd |
| England and Wales boys | Skye | 143 | 2,007th |
| New Zealand girls | Skye | 97 | 81st |
| Switzerland girls | Skye | 86 | 639th |
| France girls | Skye | 65 | 2,864th |
| Belgium boys | Skye | 34 | 1,101st |
| Poland girls | Skye | 14 birth registrations | 523rd |
| Scotland boys | Skye | 3 | 687th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Skye: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Skye | 60 | 0.005% | 680th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Skye | 23 | 0.005% | 512th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Skye | 3 | 0.005% | 164th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Skye: rank by region
In 2022, Skye was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Skye | 843 | 5 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Skye appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (201st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Skye among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Skye | 25 | 69 |
| Finland boys | Skye | 7 | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Skye against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.