Scarlette
Scarlette was given to 197 girls in 2025, #1,180 among girls’ names; 5,806 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,690 Americans named Scarlette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scarlette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Scarlette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Scarlette is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare spelling variant of Scarlett.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Scarlette?
#1,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Scarlette fell from #776 in 2015 to #1,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.12 per 1,000.
418 babies in 2016, the peak
Scarlette peaked in 2016, when 418 girls were given it, #696 among girls’ names. The 197 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,134 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 240 | #1,050 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 281 | #958 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 286 | #929 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 325 | #844 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 306 | #881 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 329 | #826 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 342 | #802 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 418 | #696 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 364 | #776 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 288 | #940 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 294 | #881 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 269 | #948 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 252 | #1,003 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,864 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,923 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,892 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,456 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,198 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,609 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,561 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,871 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,087 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,503 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,608 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,013 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,786 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,422 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,553 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,650 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,383 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,420 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,886 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,489 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,187 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,026 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,137 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,426 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,159 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,413 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,982 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,492 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,483 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,409 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,981 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,270 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,918 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,362 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,646 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Scarlette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Scarlette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Scarlette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scarlette, and how old are they?
5,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,806 Americans ever recorded as Scarlette. The median Scarlette alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,827 people named Scarlette (3,822 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 126 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 141 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,860 |
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 Scarlette born?
The states with the most babies named Scarlette are California, Texas and Arizona, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #936 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,521 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 13 | #543 | 1.7× |
| New York | 11 | #1,301 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #867 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 8 | #800 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,855 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 6 | #912 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 6 | #892 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #774 | 0.6× |
Where Scarlette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Scarlette is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1940 it was given 1.7 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 Scarlette 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,146 babies since 1880, Scarlette is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 211 babies (93%), 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 Scarlette
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 Scarlette and names like it
- Compare Scarlette and SkarletteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sScarlette peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scarlette since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Scarlette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Scarlette.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scarlette alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.