Scarlet — #489 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Scarlet

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,121 babies named Scarlet between 1939 and 2024, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Scarlet currently holds the #489 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 870 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Scarlet performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Scarlet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,330 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Scarlet in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Scarlet in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,121 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.