Scarlet
Scarlet was given to 581 girls in 2025, #510 among girls’ names; 17,709 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,300 Americans named Scarlet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scarlet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Scarlet mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Scarlet is “a female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Scarlet?
#510 among girls’ names, 2025
Scarlet fell from #376 in 2015 to #510 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.49 to 0.36 per 1,000.
870 babies in 2015, the peak
Scarlet peaked in 2015, when 870 girls were given it, #376 among girls’ names. The 581 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 581 | #510 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 624 | #490 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 664 | #464 | 0.41 |
| 2022 | 725 | #432 | 0.44 |
| 2021 | 698 | #449 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 693 | #447 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 829 | #378 | 0.49 |
| 2018 | 761 | #407 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | 786 | #400 | 0.46 |
| 2016 | 863 | #382 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 870 | #376 | 0.49 |
| 2014 | 835 | #390 | 0.47 |
| 2013 | 848 | #370 | 0.48 |
| 2012 | 778 | #399 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 864 | #373 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 762 | #414 | 0.43 |
| 2009 | 497 | #607 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 474 | #650 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 406 | #722 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 318 | #846 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,108 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,347 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 169 | #1,247 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,222 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,606 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,752 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,246 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,703 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,876 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,142 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,115 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,621 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,502 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,389 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,187 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,129 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,862 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,149 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,484 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,905 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,809 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,886 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,654 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,990 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,046 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,055 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,825 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,466 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,572 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,697 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,450 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,724 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,586 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,210 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 79 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,324 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,785 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,009 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,569 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,186 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,299 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,177 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Scarlet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Scarlet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Scarlet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scarlet, and how old are they?
17,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 17,709 Americans ever recorded as Scarlet. The median Scarlet alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 14,633 people named Scarlet (14,592 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 63 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 619 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 802 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 884 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,720 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Scarlet born?
The states with the most babies named Scarlet are California, Texas and Florida, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 80 | #423 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 68 | #481 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 35 | #530 | 0.7× |
| New York | 28 | #607 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #441 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 20 | #527 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 17 | #273 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 15 | #472 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 15 | #474 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #361 | 0.8× |
Where Scarlet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Scarlet is most over-represented in Nevada: since 1939 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Scarlet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 131,021 babies since 1880, Scarlet is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 581 of their 6,317 babies (9.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Scarlet
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Scarlet and names like it
- Compare Scarlet and ScarlettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sScarlet peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scarlet since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Scarlet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scarlet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.