Name in Japanese S Skylar

Skylar in Japanese

スカイラー
Katakana
スカイラー
Hiragana
すかいらー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Sukairā

This is the established spelling used for Skylar in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Skylar sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Su
Ka
I
ラー

Full reading: Sukairā

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Why Skylar is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Skylar appears as スカイラー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees スカイラー and immediately reads it by its sound, Sukairā.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Skylar becomes スカイラー rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.