Entry № 9801 · Scottish origin

Skye Skye — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Cloud island; the Isle of Skye"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "cloud island; the isle of skye".

Skye is the name of the largest island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland — from the Old Norse skuy, meaning "cloud," and possibly ey (island), translating roughly as "cloud island" or "misty isle." The Isle of Skye is famous for its dramatic landscapes, fairy pools, and mist-shrouded mountains.

Skye entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2002 and has been climbing steadily. Today it sits in the U.S. top 350 and is rising.

Cloud island. The misty Hebridean isle.

The name in its native script.

Skye
Transliteration
Skye
Pronunciation
/ skaɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Skye stands.

Skye 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.

Skyes before her.

Real people
Skye Sweetnam
Canadian singer.
born 1988
In fiction
Skye
Daisy Johnson's original name in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
ABC, 2013–2020

Names connected to Skye.

The number behind Skye.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Skye reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.