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Girl's name · #167 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
95% girls · 5% boys — Skylar is also given to boys: 113 in 2025, about 1 in 20 in recent years. Skylar →
Skylar's best rank, #42, came in 2015; it has settled back to #167 today. Roughly 87,000 girls have been named Skylar since 1974.
US use of Skylar for girls jumped in 1998, the year after Good Will Hunting (1997), in which Minnie Driver plays Skylar, Will Hunting’s girlfriend.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 49 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#207 in New Zealand (2025) · #266 in Ireland (2025) · #284 in Scotland (2025) · #303 in Canada (2025) · #312 in England & Wales (2025) · #334 in N. Ireland (2025) · #1,799 in Austria (2025) · #2,757 in Ecuador (2025) · #913 in Netherlands (2024) · #1,220 in Sweden (2024) · #7,160 in France (2024) · #4,499 in Italy (2023) and 3 more.
Among 81 notable people named Skylar:
Sports figures appear 2.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Skylar Diggins-Smith, American basketball player (born 1990).
Similar names: Skyla · Peyton · Skye · Rylee · Piper · Brooklyn
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