Scout — #926 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Scout

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,871 babies named Scout between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Scout currently holds the #926 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 423 babies received it in a single year. Scout is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,960 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Scout performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,098 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Scout shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 483 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Scout in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Scout 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 4,871 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.