Skyler

An anglicized phonetic spelling of the Dutch surname Schuyler, which translates roughly to scholar or schoolmaster. The surname entered North America with seventeenth-century Dutch settlers in the Hudson River Valley. American parents adopted it as a given name in the second half of the twentieth century, largely untethered from its academic roots.

The name reads as unmistakable product of the turn of the twenty-first century. It suggests translucent plastic electronics, metallic gel pens, and after-school sports practices. The sound is light and open, carrying very little historical baggage. The name sits squarely in early adulthood, with an average bearer age of twenty-one.