How rare is the name Skyla?

9,931 people in the United States have the first name Skyla, about 1 in 30,413. It ranks #2,479 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SKYLA

#2,479

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,931
About
1 in 30,413
This common or more
79.9%
Who bears it

Of the 9,931 people named Skyla, 53.1% reported their origin as White, 19.2% as Black and 14.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Skyla peaked in 2012, when 605 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19592025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
605
In 2025*
257 ▼58%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,344 babies have been given the name since 1959. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Skyla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,056. The largest share of babies named Skyla, 49.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#13,5468
1960s#9,32846
1970s#8,32499
1980s#5,057281
1990s#2,1441,415
2000s#1,1354,651
2010s#1,0565,613
2020s#1,4512,231
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–801%
Millennials 1981–966.8%
Generation Z 1997–1249.1%
2013 and later42.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Skyla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Skyla has been most common in Rhode Island (2.4×), Florida (2.4×), and Massachusetts (1.8×), and least common in Iowa (0.4×).

12,268 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Skyla

1 other first name also has 9,931 people.

#2,479 Ryland · 9,931

Either side of Skyla

#2,478 Kaylynn · 9,933#2,479 Ryland · 9,931#2,481 Wes · 9,923#2,482 Joslyn · 9,915

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Skyla, most common first.

#8,425 Skylah · 1,721

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