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Scarlett

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Scarlett is ranked 27th among girls in 2024 (5,894 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024
#27down 10 from 2023
Births in 2024
5,8940.37% of girls
Peak year
20177,719 births
Best rank
#14in 2022
Since 1937
105,996people given the name
Babies named Scarlett, by year of birthgirls
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

105,996 girls have been named Scarlett in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 7,719 births — 0.45% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 30 → 27).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Scarlett
1930s20
1940s566
1950s560
1960s988
1970s922
1980s1,208
1990s2,258
2000s8,594
2010s58,274
2020s32,606

In 2017, its biggest year

Scarlett was the 18th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.

Names that rose and fell with Scarlett

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.