Sky
Sky reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 710, and has been recorded 13,948 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 948th. About 14,000 Skys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Sky
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Sky crossed from boys to girls in 1987, and has stayed there for 39 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 81% girls, and in 2025 it was 73%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 56 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,948
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 710th
- Rank in 2025
- 948th
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 9,743 / 4,205
How old the living Skys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,948 babies given the name since 1953, about 14,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 7,500 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Skys
- Sky Brown (born 2008)British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer
- Sky Ferreira (born 1992)American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
- Sky du Mont (born 1947)German actor
- Sky Blu (born 1986)American singer and rapper
- Sky Kim (born 1982)Australian male archer
People named Sky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sky is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sky is most concentrated in Florida (2.8×), California (2.6×), Nevada (2.0×), Texas (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular girls’ names the year Sky peaked:
Sky elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Sky | 2,745 | 197th |
| Belgium boys | Sky | 342 | 223rd |
| England and Wales boys | Sky | 189 | 1,466th |
| Scotland girls | Sky | 143 | 226th |
| Belgium girls | Sky | 80 | 760th |
| Switzerland boys | Sky | 46 | 961st |
| France girls | Sky | 45 | 3,070th |
| Switzerland girls | Sky | 38 | 818th |
| Ireland girls | Sky | 32 | 555th |
| France boys | Sky | 25 | 3,528th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Sky | 6 | 413th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sky: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Sky | 40 | 0.003% | 698th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Sky | 33 | 0.003% | 770th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Sky | 4 | 0.001% | 591st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sky | 3 | 0.001% | 659th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Sky | 2 | 0.003% | 194th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Sky | 2 | 0.003% | 161st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Sky is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Sky: rank by region
In 2025, Sky was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sky | 806 | 6 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sky appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (221st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sky among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Sky | 17 | 36 |
| Finland boys | Sky | 11 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sky against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.