Meaning not yet researched.
Scout: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 254 in 2025. Its best rank was #691 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #691 in 2022; #997 in 2025. About 66% of babies named Scout in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#997 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #691.
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Scout: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 254 girls in 2025. Peak: #691 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 425 (2022).
In 2025, 254 US girls were named Scout, making it the 997th most common girls’ name of the year, down 72 places from #925 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 287 girls named Scout in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #691, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 425. For comparison, it was #1,105 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 131 US boys were named Scout, making it the 1,400th most common boys’ name of the year, up 86 places from #1,486 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 122 boys named Scout in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,101, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 195. For comparison, it was #2,104 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scout in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 21 babies. In all, 7,221 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,791 babies named Scout.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,954 US girls were named Scout; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 425. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,328 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Scout ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #159 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Scott (777,605 babies since 1880) and Scot (13,732 babies since 1880).
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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 Scout 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 7 | #159 | — |
| Utah | 15 | #305 | #293 |
| Washington | 12 | #578 | #693 |
| Colorado | 9 | #626 | #684 |
| Iowa | 5 | #665 | #685 |
| Kansas | 5 | #678 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #685 | #510 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #746 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #823 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #894 | #1,372 |
| Indiana | 7 | #907 | #673 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #910 | #835 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #917 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #992 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,022 | #1,325 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,044 | #987 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,117 | #1,262 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,331 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,399 | #959 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,416 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,603 | #911 |
| New York | 7 | #1,800 | #2,490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| 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 | #1,852 |
| 2017 | 256 | #1,015 | 76 | #1,913 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,099 | 83 | #1,825 |
| 2015 | 235 | #1,105 | 67 | #2,104 |
| 2014 | 209 | #1,178 | 56 | #2,340 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,380 | 67 | #2,040 |
| 2012 | 142 | #1,551 | 69 | #2,030 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,286 | 52 | #2,433 |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,519 | 60 | #2,206 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,988 | 56 | #2,345 |
| 2008 | 105 | #2,000 | 58 | #2,287 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,926 | 45 | #2,712 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,986 | 36 | #3,076 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,202 | 40 | #2,747 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,134 | 43 | #2,564 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,392 | 43 | #2,461 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,462 | 46 | #2,286 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,134 | 41 | #2,422 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,209 | 28 | #3,138 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,979 | 30 | #2,851 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,723 | 27 | #3,003 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,026 | 25 | #3,050 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,132 | 29 | #2,665 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,782 | 22 | #3,174 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,596 | 19 | #3,568 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,896 | 10 | #5,706 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,427 | 9 | #6,052 |
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).