Skylah
#2,323 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Skylah has been given to 2,917 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,323 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 178 recorded.
Babies named Skylah, 2025
1 in 42,000
Skylah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Skylah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 20,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,323
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Skylah 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 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Skylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Skylah was born before 2014 — so the typical Skylah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,917
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (1,568).
Is Skylah 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
- +601
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −573
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −943
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.4%
- Peak was 2016 (178)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.5% average annual change
Spellings of Skylah
Skylah is not the most common spelling — Skylar is, with 29.6% against Skylah's 0.99%.
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 Skylah is used
Across 2016–2025, Skylah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 13,586 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 5,882
- 2New York1 in 5,882
- 3South Carolina1 in 6,250
- 4Georgia1 in 8,333
- 5Florida1 in 9,091
- 6North Carolina1 in 10,000
- 7New Jersey1 in 11,111
- 8Virginia1 in 11,111
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.
Skylah around the world
Where Skylah 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 & Wales2006–2025#1,315in 2025
- Scotland2016–2016#798in 2016
- Canada2001–2023#2,973in 2023
- South Australia2001–2013#233in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Skylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Skylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Skylah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Skylah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Skylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.