Skylee
Meaning of Skylee
Skylee, pronounced SKY-lee (/ˈskaɪli/), is a contemporary Anglo-American coinage that fuses the English word “sky”—evoking the expansive firmament—with the suffix “-lee,” an element that originated in Old English lēah (“wood” or “clearing”) but has evolved in modern naming practice into a melodic, feminizing ending comparable to its use in Kaylee or Rylee; the resulting appellation conveys impressions of boundless possibility tempered by bucolic softness. Although unattested in traditional onomastic corpora, Skylee entered United States birth registries in the late 1980s and has maintained a modest yet steady presence, hovering near the 800–900 range in national popularity and reaching its highest recorded usage to date in 2013 with 149 newborn bearers. The name’s stylistic profile aligns it with the broader trend of nature-inflected, two-syllable feminine names that balance familiarity with novelty, making Skylee a choice that subtly signals modernity while retaining an airy, optimistic resonance.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as SKY-lee (/ˈskaɪli/)
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