Skye

Origin: Modern coinage — Possibly a fanciful respelling of sky

Girl's name · #532 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave

91% girls · 9% boys — Skye is also given to boys: 59 in 2025, about 1 in 12 in recent years. Skye →

Popularity over time

Skye's best rank, #368, came in 2014; it has settled back to #532 today. Roughly 24,000 girls have been named Skye since 1952.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 37 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#60 in Scotland (2025) · #184 in New Zealand (2025) · #220 in England & Wales (2025) · #253 in N. Ireland (2025) · #291 in Ireland (2025) · #501 in Netherlands (2025) · #885 in Sweden (2025) · #1,138 in Belgium (2025) · #1,383 in Switzerland (2025) · #439 in Canada (2024).

Famous Skyes

Skye McCole Bartusiak — American actress (1992–2014)
Skye Sweetnam — Canadian singer
Skye Edwards — British singer
Skye Chan — Hong Kong actress
Skye Blue — American professional wrestler

In stories & tradition

Skye Chandler — All My Children (TV series)
Skye^es — Valorant videogame character
Skye Riley — Smile 2 (film)

What Skyes become

Among 83 notable people named Skye:

Entertainers appear 2.49× more often than among typical names — e.g. Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (1992–2014).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Sky (#949), Skye would rank around #363 with about 840 births last year — the newborns split about 68/32 between Skye and Sky.

Similar names: Sky · Jaliyah · Skyla · Maci · Alivia · Amiyah

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