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Skyllar

Girl · SKY-lar · Germanic

Skyllar is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “scholar”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Skyllar mean?

Germanic: spelling of Skylar; respelling of the Dutch surname Schuyler

“scholar”

A respelling of Schuyler, the Dutch surname of the New York family celebrated in the musical Hamilton.

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SKY-lar

Meaning borrowed from Skylar. More on Wiktionary.

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

Skyllar is a girls' name.

How popular is Skyllar in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Skyllar in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 15 in 20002024
Skyllar in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20248#11,117
20239#10,307
20226#13,586
20216#13,459
20205#15,083
20190–
20187#12,459
20177#12,709
20168#11,776
20158#11,830
20148#11,925
20137#13,145
201210#10,424
20110–
20106#14,953
20090–
20080–
20076#15,485
20069#11,412
20050–
200414#7,823
200310#9,666
200215#7,039
200115#6,951
200015#6,802
199911#8,216
199812#7,527
19975#13,719
19967#10,562
19950–
19946#11,771

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

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