How Many People Are Named Sky?
people named Sky are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 24,958 people in the US has this name
Based on 13,948 babies named Sky in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
510 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Simply from the English word sky, which was ultimately derived from Old Norse sky "cloud".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sky in English. Counting Sky and these spellings together, about 40,476 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Sky, 70.4% were girls and 29.6% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Sky rose from 32.3% in the 1970s to 77.3% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sky alive today is about 18 years old, and 82% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sky first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 2014, to 510 babies. In 2025, 373 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sky has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #712, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #949. Among boys, its best rank was #1,039, in 1978.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #949 | #1,661 |
| Best rank | #712 (2021) | #1,039 (1978) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #856 in the 2010s | #1,677 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sky alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sky were born in California than in any other state: about 2,346 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sky was given 1.9 times as often in California, 1.7 times in Florida and 1.6 times in New York.
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