Given name & surname
Sky
“from the heavens”
Sky is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “from the heavens.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “from the heavens.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sky through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13,948
- 4,205 boys · 9,743 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 510 babies
- 2025
- 373
- #949 for girls · #1,661 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +7%
- Steady
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 22% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 272 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 949 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 4.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 101 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (44). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,558 as a first name in 2020; 721 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sky’s family of names
In English usage, Sky has a related form in Skye. In English usage, Sky was borrowed from the German form HIMMEL.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sky
- Sky FerreiraAmerican singer-songwriter, model, and actress (born 1992)
- Sky BrownBritish-Japanese skateboarder and surferborn 2008
- Sky KimAustralian male archerborn 1982
- Sky KatzAmerican actress, rapper and singerborn 2004
- Sky SaxonAmerican singer (1937–2009)
- Sky RemansBelgian snowboarderborn 2010
- Sky GilbertCanadian writerborn 1952
- Sky AndrewBritish table tennis playerborn 1962
- Sky van HoffGerman songwriterborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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