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Skyleigh vs Skylynn

American parents have registered 3,339 Skylynns since 1880, against 678 Skyleighs. Skylynn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Skyleigh 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 2003, when Skyleigh had 23 and Skylynn had 59.

Side by side

  Skyleigh Skylynn
Total US births 6783,339
Most in one year 49191
Babies in 2025 11136
Estimated living today 6703,300
Median age today 1210
Peak year 20122018
Best rank 3,314th girls1,223rd girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th1,548th
First recorded 19971988
Girls / boys 678 / 03,339 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Skyleighs alive today are over 12; half the Skylynns are over 10. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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