Skylan
#7,091 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Skylan has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #7,091 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% girls, 40% boys all-time.
Babies named Skylan, 2025
1 in 207,000
Skylan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Skylan over time
In 2025, Skylan went to 53% girls and 47% 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 Skylan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,091
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Skylan 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Skylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Skylan was born before 2015 — so the typical Skylan is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 478
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (228).
Is Skylan 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
- +121
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,562
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,123
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.7%
- Peak was 2016 (35)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.3% average annual change
Spellings of Skylan
Skylan is not the most common spelling — Skylar is, with 36.8% against Skylan's 0.20%.
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 Skylan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Skylan was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 899,735 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4Tennessee1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Skylan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Skylan is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Skylan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Skylan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Skylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Skylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Skylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.