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Skylynn

#1,557 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Sky

Skylynn has been given to 3,339 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,557 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 191 recorded.

Babies named Skylynn, 2025

1 in 24,400

Skylynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Skylynn: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Sky

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Skylynn means

Skylynn is a elaboration of Sky.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Skylynn is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈskaɪ.lɪn/ for Skylynn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Skylynn → Sky → Himmel. The family’s meaning is “the city of Baghdad”, recorded in German with the source elements Baldacca.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sky.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,339 girls were recorded with the name Skylynn between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 191 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,228 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,558 in 2020 to #1,557 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,286 in 2015 to #1,557 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 Skylynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,400
136 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,557
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Skylynn 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skylynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Skylynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Skylynn was born before 2015 — so the typical Skylynn is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,339
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (1,558).

Is Skylynn 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
+159
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−271
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.2%
Peak was 2018 (191)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,228
2018

Spellings of Skylynn

Skylynn is not the most common spelling — Kaylynn is, with 25.8% against Skylynn's 7.0%.

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 Skylynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Skylynn was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 12,046 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

223 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 4,348
  2. 2Michigan1 in 5,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 5,263
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 5,882
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 6,667
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 7,692
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 10,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 10,000

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.

Skylynn around the world

Where Skylynn 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.

  • Canada
    2007–2022
    #2,318
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Skylynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,557
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1
Best rank ever
#1,228
2018
Peak year
2018
191 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,339
Count in 2025
136

Names similar to Skylynn

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

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Names with a curve like Skylynn

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

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Sibling names for Skylynn

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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