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Skip

#6,743 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Old Norse origin

Skip has been given to 2,116 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #6,743 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Skip, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Skip: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Old Norse origin

Old Norse

What Skip means

Skip is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Skip is used in English. Its origins include Old Norse.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,116 boys were recorded with the name Skip between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 105 in 1960; its best national rank was #755 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,963 in 2020 to #6,743 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 Skip?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,743
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Skip 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skip. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Skips were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Skip was born before 1960 — so the typical Skip is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,784
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (667).

Is Skip 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
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,220
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
12.4%
Peak was 1960 (105)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#755
1960

Spellings of Skip

Skip is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 40.7% against Skip's 2.5%.

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 Skip is used

Across 1910–2025, Skip was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 214,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Skip has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Skip around the world

Where Skip 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.

  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Skip

People whose public names include Skip, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Skip in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Skip. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kip

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Skip by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,743
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,220
Best rank ever
#755
1960
Peak year
1960
105 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,116
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Skip

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

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Names with a curve like Skip

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Skip, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Skip

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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