Scarlett — #27 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Scarlett

The Social Security Administration has registered 105,996 babies named Scarlett between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Scarlett currently holds the #27 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 7,719 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Scarlett performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 58,274 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Scarlett shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 15,067 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Scarlett in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Scarlett 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 105,996 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.