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Skylan vs Skylynn

American parents have registered 3,339 Skylynns since 1880, against 791 Skylans. Skylynn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Skylan against Skylynn, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Skylan Skylynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Skylynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Skylan had 5 and Skylynn had 11.

Side by side

  Skylan Skylynn
Total US births 7913,339
Most in one year 55191
Babies in 2025 30136
Estimated living today 7903,300
Median age today 1010
Peak year 20162018
Best rank 4,157th girls1,223rd girls
Rank in 2025 6,838th1,548th
First recorded 19941988
Girls / boys 478 / 3133,339 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Skylan and Skylynn.