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Boy's name · #1537 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
5% boys · 95% girls — About 95% of babies named Skylar in recent years have been girls. Skylar →
Skylar reached #356 in 2000 and has eased to #1537 since. About 18,000 boys have carried it since 1959.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,523 in Canada (2024).
Among 81 notable people named Skylar:
Sports figures appear 2.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Skylar Mays, American basketball player.
Similar names: Skyler · Payton · Sky · Kolby · Dayton · Trevon
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