Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sky” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sky” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sky” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sky” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sky” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sky” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sky” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sky” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 16 0.00000387 5 11 -38%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 6 19 -52%
1971 30 0.00000874 6 24 -60%
1972 47 0.000014954 18 29 -23%
1973 38 0.000012596 13 25 -32%
1974 64 0.000021053 16 48 -50%
1975 86 0.000028483 25 61 -42%
1976 64 0.000021092 22 42 -31%
1977 84 0.000026444 27 57 -36%
1978 107 0.000033713 36 71 -33%
1979 99 0.000029757 39 60 -21%
1980 83 0.000024096 30 53 -28%
1981 80 0.000023126 27 53 -32%
1982 94 0.000026796 30 64 -36%
1983 90 0.000025986 26 64 -42%
1984 69 0.000019778 21 48 -39%
1985 76 0.000021294 27 49 -29%
1986 71 0.00001996 14 57 -61%
1987 103 0.000028567 57 46 11%
1988 116 0.000031393 66 50 14%
1989 122 0.000031734 69 53 13%
1990 147 0.000037192 92 55 25%
1991 127 0.000032604 77 50 21%
1992 140 0.000036446 90 50 29%
1993 163 0.000043233 100 63 23%
1994 183 0.000049225 110 73 20%
1995 202 0.000055159 128 74 27%
1996 246 0.000067449 160 86 30%
1997 256 0.000070606 177 79 38%
1998 252 0.000068512 188 64 49%
1999 291 0.000078779 215 76 48%
2000 289 0.000076457 214 75 48%
2001 308 0.000082278 222 86 44%
2002 335 0.000089613 252 83 50%
2003 364 0.000095731 273 91 50%
2004 313 0.000081917 226 87 44%
2005 353 0.000091811 262 91 48%
2006 337 0.000085183 251 86 49%
2007 359 0.000089802 272 87 52%
2008 349 0.000088789 266 83 52%
2009 347 0.000090834 253 94 46%
2010 356 0.000096327 252 104 42%
2011 340 0.000092952 263 77 55%
2012 411 0.000112376 314 97 53%
2013 392 0.000107525 296 96 51%
2014 509 0.000137331 385 124 51%
2015 451 0.000121862 367 84 63%
2016 452 0.000123204 366 86 62%
2017 426 0.000119121 335 91 57%
2018 403 0.000114622 315 88 56%
2019 429 0.000123598 337 92 57%
2020 433 0.000129618 337 96 56%
2021 505 0.000149058 405 100 60%
2022 509 0.000150452 396 113 56%
2023 464 0.000140131 359 105 55%
2024 428 0.000128586 330 98 54%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sky:

  1. Skipp
  2. Skipper
  3. Skippy
  4. Skky
  5. Sklyer
  6. Sky (this page)
  7. Skya
  8. Skyah
  9. Skyana
  10. Skyann
  11. Skyanna