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Ski

Gender
Girl
Say it
SKEE
Origin
English

Ski is a girls' name of English origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Ski mean?

English: English word ski, from Norwegian

The word ski comes from Old Norse skid, a split length of wood.

Is Ski a girl's or a boy's name?

Ski is a girls' name.

How popular is Ski in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Ski in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 10 in 20022022
Ski in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20228#11,225
20215#15,246
20208#11,085
20190–
20180–
20170–
20165#16,210
20158#11,830
20140–
201310#10,230
20127#13,477
20117#13,339
20100–
20096#15,236
200810#10,802
20076#15,485
20066#15,147
20050–
20040–
20036#13,837
200210#9,476
20016#13,514
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19966#11,801
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19915#13,139
19905#12,952

Names like Ski

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ski: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ski, updated 20 October 2026.