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How popular is “Skylar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Skylar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Skylar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Skylar” 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
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 14 0.000004605 6 8 -14%
1975 18 0.000005961 8 10 -11%
1976 20 0.000006591 10 10 0%
1977 31 0.000009759 11 20 -29%
1978 23 0.000007247 7 16 -39%
1979 48 0.000014427 13 35 -46%
1980 37 0.000010742 11 26 -41%
1981 104 0.000030063 15 89 -71%
1982 117 0.000033353 14 103 -76%
1983 110 0.000031761 14 96 -75%
1984 166 0.000047581 20 146 -76%
1985 204 0.000057157 29 175 -72%
1986 232 0.000065222 61 171 -47%
1987 351 0.000097348 106 245 -40%
1988 345 0.000093368 116 229 -33%
1989 423 0.000110029 127 296 -40%
1990 867 0.000219356 419 448 -3%
1991 779 0.000199986 364 415 -7%
1992 882 0.000229611 413 469 -6%
1993 1121 0.000297325 547 574 -2%
1994 1206 0.000324398 621 585 3%
1995 1246 0.000340237 685 561 10%
1996 1491 0.000408807 855 636 15%
1997 1610 0.000444046 953 657 18%
1998 2461 0.000669076 1731 730 41%
1999 3208 0.000868467 2513 695 57%
2000 3251 0.000860075 2503 748 54%
2001 3078 0.000822249 2344 734 52%
2002 3071 0.000821498 2391 680 56%
2003 2937 0.000772423 2305 632 57%
2004 2713 0.000710038 2176 537 60%
2005 2804 0.000729288 2241 563 60%
2006 2984 0.000754261 2352 632 58%
2007 2624 0.00065638 2060 564 57%
2008 2282 0.000580563 1750 532 53%
2009 2321 0.000607564 1774 547 53%
2010 2216 0.000599609 1723 493 56%
2011 2642 0.000722294 2161 481 64%
2012 3805 0.001040366 3348 457 76%
2013 4279 0.001173722 3789 490 77%
2014 5192 0.001400829 4778 414 84%
2015 5652 0.001527191 5294 358 87%
2016 5455 0.001486904 5134 321 88%
2017 5018 0.001403167 4736 282 89%
2018 4639 0.001319436 4407 232 90%
2019 4262 0.001227912 4049 213 90%
2020 3802 0.001138127 3640 162 91%
2021 3499 0.001032778 3346 153 91%
2022 3051 0.000901826 2892 159 90%
2023 2686 0.000811187 2537 149 89%
2024 2299 0.000690701 2186 113 90%

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