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Skyla

#986 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Skyler

Skyla has been given to 14,344 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #986 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 605 recorded.

Babies named Skyla, 2025

1 in 12,900

Skyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Skyla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Skyler

coinages

What Skyla means

Skyla is a variant of Skyler.

Origin, language, and formation

Skyla is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Skyla is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Skyler.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,344 girls were recorded with the name Skyla between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 605 in 2012; its best national rank was #504 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #633 in 2020 to #986 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #551 in 2015 to #986 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 Skyla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,900
257 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,250
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#986
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,942 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Skyla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,942 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Skylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Skyla was born before 2011 — so the typical Skyla is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,344
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (5,613).

Is Skyla 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
−136
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−353
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−435
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.5%
Peak was 2012 (605)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#504
2012

Spellings of Skyla

Skyla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 31.0% against Skyla's 1.3%.

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 Skyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Skyla was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 1,190 girls, against 1 in 3,300 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in 10,000).

1084 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 1,190
  2. 2Montana1 in 1,786
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 1,786
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 2,041
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 2,381
  6. 6Florida1 in 2,500
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 2,500
  8. 8New York1 in 2,564

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.

Geographically, Skyla is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 20% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Skyla around the world

Where Skyla 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
    1996–2025
    #366
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2007–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2009–2024
    #4,623
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #647
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #76
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Skyla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#986
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 353
Best rank ever
#504
2012
Peak year
2012
605 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,344
Count in 2025
257

Names similar to Skyla

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

SkyeSkylerCaylaLeylaKeylaShylaSkyTwylaTaylaSkylahJaylaMylaSkyleeZaylaSkylarNaylaNylaShaylaGaylaSkyyMckaylaAnylaSkylynnAyla

Names with a curve like Skyla

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

LibertyKennediDayanaJazlynLaneyMadelynnAmaniJayceeAleahFernandaDylanAnsley

Sibling names for Skyla

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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