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ArchivesChallenging the origins of Skylar - any ideas?
I'm fairly unconvinced that the modern name Skylar/Skyla bears any resemblance to the name schular and most dutch people would feel similarly. I do not like the association with Scylla - the hideous monster. Any possible affiliations/meanings/origins that could be given to an otherwise lovely name.
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I bet many parents were looking for a more "feminine" version of Tyler, or combining the names Tyler and Sky into what they thought was a new name and just stumbled on something that happened to be a Dutch surname as well.
Also, I wouldn't consider Skyla and Skylar the same name. You'd have to have a pretty thick Long Island accent to pronounce them the same way!
Also, I wouldn't consider Skyla and Skylar the same name. You'd have to have a pretty thick Long Island accent to pronounce them the same way!
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Skylar/Skyla
I have no idea where Liala is from, but almost everyone in Australia and New Zealand, and the great majority of speakers in England, would pronounce Skyla and Skylar the same as they have non-rhotic accents just like the "think Long Island" (or Boston) accent you are thinking of. :)
I have no idea where Liala is from, but almost everyone in Australia and New Zealand, and the great majority of speakers in England, would pronounce Skyla and Skylar the same as they have non-rhotic accents just like the "think Long Island" (or Boston) accent you are thinking of. :)
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Eek, now I'm being one of those people who assume everyone on the internet is American (North American?) I can see how Skyla would be a perfectly reasonable respelling in a country where no one would enunciate the final r anyway.
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In the United States, the surname Schuyler is normally pronounced the same way as Skylar or Skyler. There was a Schuyler family that was very prominent in the early history of New York State, which was originally settled by the Dutch. There was a Vice President of the United States in the 19th century named Schuyler Colfax, named after this family, and his given name was pronounced that way.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000626
The spelling Schuyler was in regular use for the first name before the alternatives Skylar and Skyler became common. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable objection to me to seeing Skylar and Skyler as modern respellings of Schuyler.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000626
The spelling Schuyler was in regular use for the first name before the alternatives Skylar and Skyler became common. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable objection to me to seeing Skylar and Skyler as modern respellings of Schuyler.
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Schular?
It doesn't say Schular, but Schuyler. I can understand that an English speaking person seeing Schuyler would pronounce this roughly like Skylar, so I would think it's plausible that that is how the name came into being.
Also English speakers managed to turn Breukelen into Brooklyn and Baas into Boss for example, so why would Schuyler into Skyler be so ahrd to imagine?
(for the record: I'm Dutch)
It doesn't say Schular, but Schuyler. I can understand that an English speaking person seeing Schuyler would pronounce this roughly like Skylar, so I would think it's plausible that that is how the name came into being.
Also English speakers managed to turn Breukelen into Brooklyn and Baas into Boss for example, so why would Schuyler into Skyler be so ahrd to imagine?
(for the record: I'm Dutch)
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