Scarlett
Scarlett was given to 5,644 girls in 2025, #32 among girls’ names; 111,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 110,000 Americans named Scarlett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scarlett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Scarlett mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Scarlett is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of general post-1936 usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Scarlett?
#32 among girls’ names, 2025
Scarlett fell from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.0 to 3.5 per 1,000.
7,725 babies in 2016, the peak
Scarlett peaked in 2016, when 7,725 babies were given it (7,720 girls, #18 among girls’ names). The 5,650 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,644 | #32 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5,912 | #27 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 6,318 | #17 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 7,258 | #14 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 6,631 | #20 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 6,521 | #21 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 7,086 | #21 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7,226 | #20 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 7,721 | #18 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 7,720 | #18 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7,143 | #22 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 6,011 | #30 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5,054 | #42 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 4,045 | #61 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 3,564 | #80 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 2,717 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 1,923 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 1,621 | #211 | 0.86 |
| 2007 | 1,583 | #218 | 0.82 |
| 2006 | 1,116 | #297 | 0.59 |
| 2005 | 733 | #424 | 0.40 |
| 2004 | 538 | #528 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 327 | #759 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 290 | #806 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 237 | #937 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 227 | #941 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 245 | #877 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 254 | #839 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 231 | #880 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 248 | #819 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 272 | #750 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 235 | #849 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 250 | #803 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 204 | #946 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,160 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 167 | #1,063 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 138 | #1,183 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 132 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,022 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,091 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 112 | #1,231 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,327 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,413 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 113 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,130 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 108 | #1,208 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,364 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 133 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,189 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,752 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,275 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,359 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,224 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,227 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,106 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,189 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 78 | #1,208 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,031 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 113 | #1,014 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 115 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 131 | #930 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,021 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 96 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,258 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 68 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 76 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 77 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 59 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,271 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Scarlett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Scarlett has been given almost only to girls: 52 boys in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Scarlett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scarlett, and how old are they?
110,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 111,739 Americans ever recorded as Scarlett. The median Scarlett alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 64,822 people named Scarlett (64,722 women and girls, 100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 183 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,040 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,390 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 85,800 |
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 Scarlett born?
The states with the most babies named Scarlett are California, Texas and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 602 | #35 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 560 | #37 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 323 | #36 | 0.8× |
| New York | 312 | #33 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 251 | #18 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 229 | #24 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 199 | #22 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 175 | #43 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 168 | #42 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 159 | #25 | 1.0× |
Where Scarlett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Scarlett is most over-represented in Nevada: since 1937 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 Scarlett 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, Scarlett is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5,650 of their 6,317 babies (89%), again the 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 Scarlett
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 Scarlett and names like it
- Compare Scarlett and ScarletBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sScarlett peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scarlett since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Scarlett: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Scarlett.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scarlett alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.