Skylar ranks at #620 with 198 entries, registered female on this chart. The name is a distinctly modern American spelling of Skyler, anchored by 1990s-and-2000s human-naming conventions, and on a pet registry it carries the human-name-on-pet register cleanly without much pop-culture interference.
The human-name-on-pet cohort
Skylar sits with Harper, Riley, Bailey, and Avery in the late-millennial-feminine human-name pet pocket. These are names that climbed strongly on American baby charts in the 1990s and 2000s, and a portion has crossed onto pets as those owners reached adulthood and chose dog names from the same naming aesthetic that shaped their own peer cohort.
Owner-type lean
The name lands disproportionately with millennial and younger-Gen-X owners, often first-time dog parents who treat the dog as a family member with a proper human name. The household register tends modern and design-conscious, with the dog photographed often and the name appearing in social-media posts where it reads cleanly without quotation marks.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (SKY-lar), with an open vowel opening and a soft trailing R. The name carries cleanly outside without harshness. It lands on a wide breed range without strong concentration: Golden Retrievers, Labradors, Border Collies, and shelter mixes all turn up. The human Skylar page shows strong post-1990s SSA growth; pet Skylar tracks alongside as the same generational naming wave reaches the dogs.