Skye

Derived from the Scottish Isle of Skye, an Old Norse name likely meaning cloud island, though often selected in the United States as an alternate spelling of the natural noun. The name first appeared in national birth records in 1952. It gathered momentum during the late-twentieth-century shift toward nature and place names.

The name reads as clean, single-syllable, and firmly rooted in the twenty-first century. The extra vowel on the end suggests Scottish geography rather than open weather, though listeners often conflate the two. With an average age of nineteen, the name belongs largely to high school and college rosters. It tends to be associated with someone who learned to text on a glass screen.