Skeeter
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Skeeter has been given to 139 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1978, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Skeeter, 1993
1 in 628,000
Skeeter 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Skeeter over time
In 1993, Skeeter 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 Skeeter?
Skeeter had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1993
- 1 in 628,000
- 6 of 3,768,729 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 327,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1993
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 435,382 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Skeeter sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skeeter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Skeeters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Skeeter was born before 1973 — so the typical Skeeter is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 45.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 126
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (57).
Is Skeeter 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 1978 (11)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Skeeter by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Skeeter
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Skeeter
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.