Skip
Skip is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 756th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1960105 births
- Best rank
- #756in 1960
- Since 1930
- 2,103people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,103 boys have been named Skip in the United States since 1930, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 105 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1950s alone account for 32%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1960, its biggest year
Skip was the 756th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Skip
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Terrypeak 1957
- Dannypeak 1954
- Michielpeak 1956
- Butchpeak 1956
- Randallpeak 1960
- Rockiepeak 1958
- Barrypeak 1962
- Randelpeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.