How Many People Are Named Skip?

1,583

people named Skip are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 215,909 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,116 babies named Skip in Social Security records from 1930 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#7,862

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#2,909

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Peak Year

1960

105 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Skip in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Skip alive today is about 57 years old, and 58% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 48 and 69 in 2025.

Under 30 124
7.8%
30 to 59 543
34.3%
60 and over 916
57.9%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Skip first appears in the records in 1930 and was given most often in 1960, to 105 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1930 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Skip has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #755, in 1960. In 2025 it ranked #6,743.

Boys
Rank in 2025#6,743
Best rank#755 (1960)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#907 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Skip alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Skip were born in California than in any other state: about 184 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Skip was given about 6.3 times as often in California.

California 184
Ohio 30
Michigan 28
New York 24
Texas 19
Illinois 14
Washington 10
Missouri 7
Florida 5
Indiana 4
Virginia 4
New Jersey 4
Pennsylvania 3

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