Entry № 9805 · Dutch origin

Skyler Skyler — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKY-ler /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Scholar / fugitive (Skyler White, Breaking Bad)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Dutch)

A name that means "scholar / fugitive (skyler white, breaking bad)".

Skyler is the modern American spelling of Schuyler — from the Dutch Schuylen ("to take shelter, to flee") — the surname of a prominent Dutch-American family in colonial New York. Schuyler Sisters — Eliza, Angelica, and Peggy Schuyler are immortalized in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015); the "Schuyler Sisters" number is one of the most-streamed Hamilton songs.

Scholar / fugitive.

The name in its native script.

Skyler
Transliteration
Skyler
Pronunciation
/ ˈskaɪ.lər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Skyler stands.

Skyler does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Skylers before her.

Real people
Anna Gunn (as Skyler)
Two-time Emmy winner for Skyler White.
born 1968
Skyler Samuels
American actress.
born 1994
In fiction
Skyler White
Breaking Bad.
2008

Names connected to Skyler.

The number behind Skyler.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Skyler reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.