Meaning not yet researched.
Scarlett: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,644 in 2025. Its best rank was #14 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #14 in 2022; #32 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Scarlett in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#32 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #14.
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Scarlett: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,644 girls in 2025. Peak: #14 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 7,721 (2017).
In 2025, 5,644 US girls were named Scarlett, making it the 32nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 5 places from #27 in 2024. That is 268 fewer than the 5,912 girls named Scarlett in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #14, reached in 2022. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,721, in 2017. For comparison, it was #22 in 2015 and #1,232 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scarlett in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 7 babies. In all, 111,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 58,309 babies named Scarlett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 68,037 US girls were named Scarlett; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 7,721. In 2025 that was about 1 in 285 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Scarlett ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #12 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 49 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Scarlet (17,709 babies since 1880), Scarlette (5,806 babies since 1880) and Skarlett (1,095 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Scarleth, Skarlet and Skarlette are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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: Scarleth (761), Skarlet (478), Skarlette (340), Skarleth (214), Scarlytt (45), Scarlotte (44), Scarrlett (8), Scarlitt (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 Scarlett 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 13 | #12 | #21 |
| Ohio | 251 | #18 | #19 |
| Kentucky | 103 | #19 | #27 |
| West Virginia | 40 | #20 | #29 |
| Rhode Island | 24 | #20 | #63 |
| Arizona | 151 | #21 | #13 |
| Nebraska | 46 | #22 | #19 |
| Georgia | 199 | #22 | #39 |
| Wisconsin | 109 | #23 | #34 |
| Pennsylvania | 229 | #24 | #28 |
| Colorado | 124 | #24 | #18 |
| Oklahoma | 78 | #24 | #21 |
| Oregon | 70 | #25 | #33 |
| Tennessee | 159 | #25 | #34 |
| Maryland | 99 | #25 | #36 |
| Missouri | 120 | #25 | #28 |
| New Hampshire | 30 | #27 | #25 |
| Nevada | 50 | #27 | #12 |
| Vermont | 12 | #28 | #126 |
| Kansas | 61 | #28 | #37 |
| North Dakota | 20 | #29 | #91 |
| Arkansas | 52 | #30 | #37 |
| Alabama | 81 | #30 | #38 |
| Maine | 22 | #30 | #39 |
| Minnesota | 99 | #31 | #38 |
| Iowa | 58 | #32 | #22 |
| Connecticut | 67 | #33 | #26 |
| Virginia | 154 | #33 | #30 |
| New York | 312 | #33 | #24 |
| Washington | 123 | #34 | #28 |
| Utah | 80 | #34 | #11 |
| California | 602 | #35 | #16 |
| Indiana | 117 | #36 | #26 |
| Florida | 323 | #36 | #40 |
| Texas | 560 | #37 | #23 |
| New Jersey | 154 | #39 | #17 |
| Michigan | 140 | #39 | #41 |
| Louisiana | 66 | #40 | #36 |
| Illinois | 168 | #42 | #43 |
| North Carolina | 175 | #43 | #34 |
| New Mexico | 22 | #44 | #16 |
| Delaware | 14 | #44 | #27 |
| South Carolina | 73 | #44 | #47 |
| South Dakota | 16 | #48 | #108 |
| Alaska | 11 | #49 | #15 |
| Massachusetts | 89 | #57 | #35 |
| Montana | 13 | #69 | #44 |
| Mississippi | 28 | #75 | #72 |
| Idaho | 23 | #86 | #26 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #115 | #176 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #131 | #25 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,644 | #32 | 6 | #11,768 |
| 2024 | 5,912 | #27 | 6 | #12,123 |
| 2023 | 6,318 | #17 | 6 | #12,013 |
| 2022 | 7,258 | #14 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6,631 | #20 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6,521 | #21 | 5 | #13,708 |
| 2019 | 7,086 | #21 | 5 | #13,802 |
| 2018 | 7,226 | #20 | 6 | #11,897 |
| 2017 | 7,721 | #18 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7,720 | #18 | 5 | #13,858 |
| 2015 | 7,143 | #22 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6,011 | #30 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5,054 | #42 | — | — |
| 2012 | 4,045 | #61 | 6 | #12,026 |
| 2011 | 3,564 | #80 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,717 | #115 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,923 | #170 | 7 | #10,778 |
| 2008 | 1,621 | #211 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,583 | #218 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,116 | #297 | — | — |
| 2005 | 733 | #424 | — | — |
| 2004 | 538 | #528 | — | — |
| 2003 | 327 | #759 | — | — |
| 2002 | 290 | #806 | — | — |
| 2001 | 237 | #938 | — | — |
| 2000 | 227 | #942 | — | — |
| 1999 | 245 | #878 | — | — |
| 1998 | 254 | #839 | — | — |
| 1997 | 231 | #881 | — | — |
| 1996 | 248 | #819 | — | — |
| 1995 | 272 | #751 | — | — |
| 1994 | 235 | #850 | — | — |
| 1993 | 250 | #804 | — | — |
| 1992 | 204 | #948 | — | — |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1990 | 167 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1989 | 138 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1988 | 132 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1985 | 112 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1981 | 113 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1980 | 121 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1979 | 108 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1977 | 133 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1967 | 78 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1964 | 113 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1963 | 115 | #996 | — | — |
| 1962 | 131 | #930 | — | — |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1955 | 96 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1943 | 68 | #964 | — | — |
| 1942 | 76 | #901 | — | — |
| 1941 | 77 | #829 | — | — |
| 1940 | 59 | #943 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,743 | — | — |
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).