The name Sky comes from the English word ‘sky’, which has its origin in the Old Norse ský meaning ‘cloud’.
Sky is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.
Few children have been named Sky in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 13 out of 100,000 children are currently called Sky. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Sky at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Sky is number *** on the list of most common first names.
The name Sky comes from the English word ‘sky’, which has its origin in the Old Norse ský meaning ‘cloud’.
In the US,... Sky is used as a given name since the 1990s.
In fact, the name Sky did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Sky seemed to be more popular than ever in 2014. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,128, 509 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Sky, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sky was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Sky a few times. Among all babies it ranked #1,161 - with a total of 503 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a real popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common frist names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, J and K are more common for first names.
With only three letters, the name Sky is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.7% of all first names start with an S, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Sky and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sky, you can simply say:
Sun
Koala
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sky
Sky
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
K
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
K
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sky sounds like this:
