Meaning not yet researched.
Scarlet: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 581 in 2025. Its best rank was #370 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #370 in 2013; #510 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Scarlet in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#510 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #370.
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Scarlet: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 581 girls in 2025. Peak: #370 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 870 (2015).
In 2025, 581 US girls were named Scarlet, making it the 510th most common girls’ name of the year, down 20 places from #490 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 624 girls named Scarlet in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #370, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 870, in 2015. For comparison, it was #376 in 2015 and #1,570 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scarlet in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 6 babies. In all, 17,709 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,196 babies named Scarlet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,224 US girls were named Scarlet; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 863. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,766 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Scarlet ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #261 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Scarlett (111,739 babies since 1880), Scarlette (5,806 babies since 1880) and Skarlett (1,095 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Skarlit are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Skarlit (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Scarlet in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 11 | #261 | #399 |
| Kentucky | 17 | #273 | #425 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #361 | #287 |
| Oregon | 10 | #388 | #456 |
| California | 80 | #423 | #363 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #441 | #375 |
| Arizona | 15 | #472 | #283 |
| Indiana | 15 | #474 | #438 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #475 | #564 |
| Missouri | 13 | #476 | #339 |
| Utah | 9 | #480 | #213 |
| Texas | 68 | #481 | #422 |
| Iowa | 7 | #483 | #357 |
| Kansas | 7 | #489 | #730 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #513 | #418 |
| Ohio | 20 | #527 | #293 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #529 | #578 |
| Florida | 35 | #530 | #536 |
| Colorado | 11 | #531 | #355 |
| Washington | 13 | #538 | #367 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #559 | #441 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #566 | #229 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #589 | #656 |
| New York | 28 | #607 | #329 |
| Michigan | 13 | #634 | #477 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #726 | #433 |
| Illinois | 13 | #743 | #531 |
| Georgia | 13 | #792 | #615 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #804 | #398 |
| Maryland | 6 | #824 | #376 |
| Virginia | 9 | #834 | #430 |
| Alabama | 5 | #931 | #410 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 581 | #510 | — | — |
| 2024 | 624 | #490 | — | — |
| 2023 | 664 | #464 | — | — |
| 2022 | 725 | #432 | — | — |
| 2021 | 698 | #449 | — | — |
| 2020 | 693 | #447 | — | — |
| 2019 | 829 | #378 | — | — |
| 2018 | 761 | #407 | — | — |
| 2017 | 786 | #400 | — | — |
| 2016 | 863 | #382 | — | — |
| 2015 | 870 | #376 | — | — |
| 2014 | 835 | #390 | — | — |
| 2013 | 848 | #370 | — | — |
| 2012 | 778 | #399 | — | — |
| 2011 | 864 | #373 | — | — |
| 2010 | 762 | #414 | — | — |
| 2009 | 497 | #607 | — | — |
| 2008 | 474 | #650 | — | — |
| 2007 | 406 | #722 | — | — |
| 2006 | 318 | #846 | — | — |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2003 | 169 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1962 | 79 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,179 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).