Skarlet
Skarlet was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,213 among girls’ names; 478 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Skarlet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Skarlet?
#5,213 among girls’ names, 2025
Skarlet rose from #5,272 in 2015 to #5,213 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 15.6 per million.
39 babies in 2011, the peak
Skarlet peaked in 2011, when 39 girls were given it, #3,904 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,213 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,274 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,982 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,283 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,374 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,822 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,888 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,590 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,317 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,590 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,272 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,608 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,229 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,233 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,904 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,836 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,405 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,418 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,261 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,836 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,158 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,243 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,979 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Skarlet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Skarlet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Skarlet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Skarlet, and how old are they?
An estimated 475 Americans named Skarlet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 385 people named Skarlet (383 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Skarlet?
Skarlet is a less common spelling of Scarlett: SSA has recorded 478 Skarlet and 111,739 Scarlett since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 131,021 babies since 1880, Skarlet is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 6,317 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Skarlet
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 Skarlet and names like it
- Compare Skarlet and ScarlettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSkarlet peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Skarlet since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Skarlet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Skarlet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.