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Skanda

#4,026 in 2025Boys' name

Hopping, spurting, spilling

Skanda has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #4,026 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Skanda, 2025

1 in 123,000

Skanda over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Skanda: meaning, origin, and history

Hopping, spurting, spilling

Sanskrit

What Skanda means

Skanda means “hopping, spurting, spilling”.

Origin, language, and formation

Skanda is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 195 boys were recorded with the name Skanda between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,026 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,625 in 2020 to #4,026 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,459 in 2015 to #4,026 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Skanda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,026
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Skanda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Skandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Skanda was born before 2018 — so the typical Skanda is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
195
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Skanda 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
+1,594
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,599
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,433
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (27)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,026
2025

Spellings of Skanda

Skanda is not the most common spelling — Sandy is, with 60.4% against Skanda's 1.1%.

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 Skanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Skanda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Skanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Skanda around the world

Where Skanda 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 & Wales
    2018–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Skanda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,026
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,599
Best rank ever
#4,026
2025
Peak year
2025
27 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
195
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Skanda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Skanda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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