Skylar

Skylar means intelligent and scholarly. So for those who says this name has no meaning- now you know.

I hated this name before Hamilton, for reasons mentioned above. I hate it even more now, because all I can think of when I see it is upper-class 18th century New Yorkers. By the way, Skyler and Skylar are both corruptions of the Dutch surname Schuyler (pronounced "sky-ler" in English), none of that Greek/Egyptian/Irish stuff. As a given name, Schuyler was originally used as a male name (eg Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Grant's VP, and Schuyler Wheeler, the inventor of the electrical fan), but after the inception of the unisex names Skylar/Skyler c.1980, Schuyler was occasionally used as a girls' name (probably by people who were trying to be even more edgy). Schuyler has no relation to the word scholar in any language; it is possibly related to the Dutch verb schuilen/schuilde (to take shelter/to lurk) and "schuiler," which *could* mean "lurker/one who takes shelter," but isn't actually a real word.

This name doesn't mean scholar in dutch who made that up?
I'm a native Dutch speaker and scholar would be translated as geleerde or leerling
Skylar isn't a Dutch word so it doesn't mean anything in Dutch.
Also I think this is a guys name and very unfeminine
But I'm not a fan of the name in general. :)

The English word "scholar" came from Greek "skhole:" meaning "a holding back", stop, rest, leisure, employment of leisure in disputation, school. The Indo-European root is *segh- "to hold". From The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd ed., pg. 2123.

I'm a Skylar, and though I've read for years that my name comes from the word "scholar" in Dutch, I don't think there's much truth in it. A couple years ago, I travelled to the Netherlands to look up some long-lost relatives, the part of the family that never left Europe. It was a great reunion. They were charmed by my interest in my roots, and they found my name curious. I told them, "Better yet, it's Dutch!" They thought this was hilarious -- because there is no such name in Dutch, and never has been. I wrote out the older spelling of the name, "Schuyler," and they conceded that it LOOKED Dutch, what with the archaic "uy" and all, but they insisted that there was nothing Dutch about it. I asked lots of people around Holland and everybody said the same thing. One clue did turn up, however. They have a word "schuilen," which means "to shelter," and a "schuyler" (in the old spelling) could conceivably be a "shelterer" (although it's not really a word in Dutch). Their word for scholar, incidentally, is "geleerde," which doesn't sound much like Skylar. But hey, it's a nice story for moms and dads who are looking for a name for their (obviously very bright) newborn.

I looked at this name and read that the origin comes from Holland, my home country, and that it means 'scholar'. Well, the Dutch word for scholar is not Schuyler, but 'Geleerde' wich is a posh word for 'Scholier', a schoolboy/schoolgirl. Also the pronunciation is with a very hard G.
It's not easy to explain but I'll try. The letters: SCH are pronounced like you would say the name Achmed. The letter O like in the word 'snow'. The letters IE as in the word 'JEEP'. I wonder how this Dutch surname became a popular first name.