Schuylar
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Schuylar has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% girls, 39% boys all-time.
Babies named Schuylar, 2004
1 in 546,000
Schuylar over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Schuylar over time
In 2005, Schuylar went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Schuylar?
Schuylar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 546,000
- 7 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 262,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,279 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Schuylar sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,279 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Schuylar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Schuylars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Schuylar was born before 2000 — so the typical Schuylar is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 71.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Schuylar rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (8)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Schuylar
Schuylar is not the most common spelling — Schuyler is, with 67.6% against Schuylar's 1.4%.
Schuylar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Schuylar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Schuylar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.