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I love Sky for a boy. Truthfully even though I view Sky as being very unisex I've always slightly preferred it for a boy, I think the first Sky I met or heard of was a girl and I've definitely met / know of more female Sky's than male Sky's, but I've always just preferred it for a boy. Plus I haven't met that many more female Sky's, so this name is obviously very unisex and easily works for a boy as well as a girl.

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I like all of your Sky combos, I never felt that this name was cowboyish before but now that you mention it Sky definitely gives off a cowboy vibe. Before Sky always seemed nature themed, English, Scottish, Norse, and Dutch to me. Dutch because of Schuyler / Skyler, Norse because the word Sky meant cloud in Old Norse, and Scottish because of the Isle of Skye off Scotland. I also associate Sky as being kind of Japanese because of the Final Fantasy character Cloud and the Kingdom Hearts character Sora. But now I'll think of it also as a cowboy name.

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I wanted to add that I prefer just plain Sky for a boy over the name Schuyler / Skyler. Schuyler is pronounced differently in German more like SHOO-lur, and since that is my surname I feel that it seems weird and wrong to be pronouncing it so differently. It's my surname only minus the y but my dad researched our genealogy and they spelled our surname with and without the y changing back and forth through out our family history, so Schuyler is just a spelling variant of our surname or our surname is just a spelling variant of Schuyler. I want to look into whether Schuyler was originally a Dutch surname that spread to the German language or a German surname that spread to the Dutch language. If you are of Dutch heritage then Schuyler doesn't seem so bad, all my Dutch ancestors lived closer to what is now Germany so they spoke German not Dutch, I have a lot German heritage on both sides of my father's family it really would be weird for me to name a kid Schuyler and pronounce it like Skyler and to not pronounce it as SHOO-ler.

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Skyler just seems like a modern spelling of Schuyler or a modern name derived from Sky and Tyler, so I find the Skyler and Skylar spellings to be kind of annoying. So those are the reasons why I personally just prefer Sky over Schuyler or Skyler nn Sky.

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This message was edited 4/19/2013, 2:32 PM