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Skylynn

Skylynn is a girl's name that peaked in 2018, when it was the 1,223rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,548th. About 3,300 Skylynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Skylynn

By the numbers

Total US births
3,339
Estimated living today
3,300
Median age today
10
Peak year
2018
Best rank
1,223rd
Rank in 2025
1,548th
First recorded
1988

How old the living Skylynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,339 babies given the name since 1988, about 3,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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 Skylynn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Skylynn is most concentrated in Indiana (2.4×), Florida (2.3×), Ohio (2.2×), Texas (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Skylynn peaked:

All the names of 2018

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Skylynn against another name

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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.