Scout
Scout is given to both girls and boys: 254 girls and 131 boys were given it in 2025 (#997 among girls’ names and #1,400 among boys’, #1,414 among all names counting both); 7,221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,160 Americans named Scout and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scout by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Scout?
#997 among girls’ names, 2025
Scout rose from #1,105 in 2015 to #997 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.16 per 1,000.
620 babies in 2022, the peak
Scout peaked in 2022, when 620 babies were given it (425 girls, #691 among girls’ names). The 385 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 254 | #997 | 131 | #1,400 |
| 2024 | 287 | #925 | 122 | #1,486 |
| 2023 | 336 | #822 | 142 | #1,339 |
| 2022 | 425 | #691 | 195 | #1,101 |
| 2021 | 333 | #831 | 119 | #1,500 |
| 2020 | 309 | #872 | 83 | #1,813 |
| 2019 | 246 | #1,044 | 81 | #1,866 |
| 2018 | 274 | #965 | 82 | #1,851 |
| 2017 | 256 | #1,015 | 76 | #1,913 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,099 | 83 | #1,825 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 235 | #1,105 | 67 | #2,104 |
| 2014 | 209 | #1,178 | 56 | #2,338 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,380 | 67 | #2,039 |
| 2012 | 142 | #1,551 | 69 | #2,029 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,286 | 52 | #2,432 |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,519 | 60 | #2,205 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,988 | 56 | #2,344 |
| 2008 | 105 | #2,000 | 58 | #2,286 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,926 | 45 | #2,712 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,986 | 36 | #3,075 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,201 | 40 | #2,743 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,132 | 43 | #2,560 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,389 | 43 | #2,457 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,459 | 46 | #2,282 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,130 | 41 | #2,418 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,205 | 28 | #3,132 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,976 | 30 | #2,847 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,720 | 27 | #3,000 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,023 | 25 | #3,045 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,127 | 29 | #2,660 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,777 | 22 | #3,169 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,591 | 19 | #3,562 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,890 | 10 | #5,700 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,421 | 9 | #6,045 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Scout a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,221 Americans recorded as Scout, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Scout: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scout, and how old are they?
7,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,221 Americans ever recorded as Scout. The median Scout alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 4,622 people named Scout (3,324 women and girls, 1,298 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,840 |
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 Scout born?
The states with the most babies named Scout are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #1,399 | 0.9× |
| California | 27 | #1,022 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 22 | #746 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 19 | #1,117 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 15 | #305 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,416 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 12 | #578 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 12 | #1,331 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #894 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #910 | 0.7× |
Where Scout is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Scout is most over-represented in Utah: since 1992 it was given 2.5 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 Scout with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Scout
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 Scout and names like it
- Compare Scout and AzariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sScout peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scout since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Scout.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scout alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.