How popular is the name Skye?

Skye ranks 697th among girls' names in US records, with 33,165 births since 1952. Over the past decade it accounts for 10,951.

Is Skye a unisex name?

No. Skye is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2014, when 1,272 children were given the name. It has been in use for 73 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Sky. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#697 of girl names

Pronounced S K AY1 (ARPABET)

Skye is a girls' name, and first appears in 1952. It has been given to 33,165 children — the 697th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2014, when 1,272 children were given it.

Sky is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Skye and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Skye?: Skye ranks 697th among girls' names in US records, with 33,165 births since 1952. Over the past decade it accounts for 10,951.
Is Skye a unisex name?: No. Skye is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Skye most popular?: 2014, when 1,272 children were given the name. It has been in use for 73 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Skye spelled?: Sky. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.