Baby Girl Names - Skylar

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The name Skylar is of Dutch origin, and means scholar. The table below indicates the number of times the name Skylar has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Skylar**
Use of the Name Skylar for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
20,740	20,740	20,740	18,380	11,655	4,431	2,137

The table below indicates the number of times the name Skylar has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Skylar first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1981, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Skylar**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1981			957	89
1982			879	103
1983			900	96
1984			719	147
1985			668	175
1986			695	170
1987			582	244
1988			625	228
1989			562	297
1990	563	417	465	447
1991	620	364	486	415
1992	565	413	463	468
1993	460	545	403	574
1994	403	621	398	585
1995	386	684	408	561
1996	328	854	373	635
1997	302	953	371	657
1998	173	1,728	358	727
1999	131	2,506	374	693
2000	135	2,497	356	746
2001	141	2,339	363	730
2002	140	2,388	383	677
2003	144	2,294	409	630
2004	155	2,137	471	529
Totals:		20,740		10,623

During the last 125 years, parents have used Skylar as a girl's name about 66% of the time and less frequently (about 33% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Skylar appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 116 times during the last 125 years.

See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.

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