How popular is “Skye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Skye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Skye” 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 “Skye” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Skye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Skye” 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
1952	6	0.00000158	6		100%
1956	29	0.000007034	29		100%
1957	18	0.000004284	11	7	22%
1958	11	0.000002661	11		100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5		100%
1962	8	0.000001982	8		100%
1963	9	0.000002274	9		100%
1964	7	0.000001801	7		100%
1965	5	0.000001379	5		100%
1966	5	0.000001439	5		100%
1967	8	0.000002356	8		100%
1969	9	0.00000259	9		100%
1970	19	0.000005268	14	5	47%
1971	41	0.000011945	36	5	76%
1972	62	0.000019726	45	17	45%
1973	68	0.00002254	41	27	21%
1974	93	0.000030592	72	21	55%
1975	96	0.000031794	70	26	46%
1976	106	0.000034934	80	26	51%
1977	115	0.000036203	89	26	55%
1978	101	0.000031822	77	24	52%
1979	161	0.000048392	112	49	39%
1980	141	0.000040935	103	38	46%
1981	144	0.000041626	94	50	31%
1982	155	0.000044185	110	45	42%
1983	147	0.000042445	108	39	47%
1984	115	0.000032963	88	27	53%
1985	124	0.000034743	100	24	61%
1986	158	0.000044418	116	42	47%
1987	285	0.000079043	240	45	68%
1988	284	0.00007686	240	44	69%
1989	284	0.000073873	241	43	70%
1990	359	0.000090829	308	51	72%
1991	346	0.000088826	303	43	75%
1992	348	0.000090595	295	53	70%
1993	364	0.000096545	313	51	72%
1994	366	0.000098449	308	58	68%
1995	426	0.000116325	349	77	64%
1996	481	0.000131882	396	85	65%
1997	639	0.000176239	557	82	74%
1998	590	0.000160404	516	74	75%
1999	576	0.000155934	507	69	76%
2000	652	0.000172491	566	86	74%
2001	658	0.000175776	602	56	83%
2002	698	0.000186716	648	50	86%
2003	793	0.000208557	727	66	83%
2004	806	0.000210944	760	46	89%
2005	811	0.000210932	734	77	81%
2006	803	0.000202973	740	63	84%
2007	752	0.000188109	681	71	81%
2008	686	0.000174525	623	63	82%
2009	701	0.000183499	627	74	79%
2010	700	0.000189407	615	85	76%
2011	680	0.000185905	624	56	84%
2012	760	0.0002078	703	57	85%
2013	773	0.000212033	718	55	86%
2014	946	0.000255236	887	59	88%
2015	915	0.000247236	856	59	87%
2016	867	0.000236324	796	71	84%
2017	809	0.000226218	750	59	85%
2018	794	0.000225831	748	46	88%
2019	810	0.000233367	752	58	86%
2020	712	0.000213137	662	50	86%
2021	803	0.000237017	736	67	83%
2022	824	0.000243561	759	65	84%
2023	756	0.000228316	687	69	82%
2024	705	0.000211807	642	63	82%

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