Meaning & Origin
A female given name originating as a coinage.
Skyla is a girl's baby name of Old Norse origin, a modern coinage inspired by Skylar or Sky, ultimately from the Old Norse ský (cloud) or possibly the Dutch Schuyler (scholar). It carries an open, airy quality of limitless space and possibility.
Skyla is part of the Sky- family of names — Skylar, Skyler, Skye, Skyla — that have been popular in the United States since the 1990s. Its soft -a ending gives it a more distinctly feminine feel than the gender-neutral Skylar, while keeping the same expansive sky imagery.