Girl · Dutch
Skylar
Say it: SKY-lur
Meaning
A modern spelling of Schuyler, a Dutch surname usually explained as 'scholar'. The link to 'sky' is a modern reinterpretation of the spelling, not the origin.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
The Schuyler surname came to New York with Dutch settlers; the Skylar spelling spread as a given name from the late 1980s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 92,068 babies given this name since 1959
- At its height in 2015, about 1 in 337 girls
- 3,767 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Skyler, Schuyler
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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