Skai
#2,642 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Skai has been given to 1,138 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,642 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 92 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.
Babies named Skai, 2025
1 in 50,200
Skai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Skai over time
In 2025, Skai went to 90% girls and 10% 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 Skai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 50,200
- 66 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 24,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,642
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 34,818 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Skai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Skais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Skai was born before 2018 — so the typical Skai is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,054
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (466).
Is Skai 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
- −115
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +67
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +380
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.16×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.7%
- Peak was 2021 (92)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Skai
Skai is not the most common spelling — Kay is, with 21.9% against Skai's 0.23%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Skai is used
Across 2016–2025, Skai was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 27,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 10,000
- 2Georgia1 in 11,111
- 3Florida1 in 12,500
- 4Maryland1 in 14,286
- 5Alabama1 in 20,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 7New York1 in 25,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Skai around the world
Where Skai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2024#4,844in 2024
- France2019–2019#7,263in 2019
- South Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Skai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Skai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Skai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.